state of dependence v. State of care

"As I will show, this sense of ‘counter-culture’ – as a reaction to ‘pathological issues’ and an expression of ideological preoccupations at odds with and marginal to dominant ideas of ‘common sense’ – is useful in thinking about Winnicott and his purchase on the contemporary critical imagination. However, Winnicott’s place in the history of post-war social change is also vital in understanding this relationship. Winnicott played a central role in shaping post- war administered society, which became the target of the counter-cultural rebellion, and he contributed to a politics of care that continues to provide a counter-narrative to the ‘common sense’ of contemporary neoliberal ideology." (326)"Winnicott here outlines a politics of care premised on environmental experience." (336)"Unless such dependence is acknowledged, or some attention paid to the non-narcissistic capacities of the ego itself – both key facets of Winnicottian thinking – critical theory lacks the psychoanalytic resources necessary to defend public institutions from the onslaught of neoliberal privatisation." (338)"Honig is conscious that public things have received little attention from political theorists, but she does not provide an account of this dismissal. It is here that we might wish to supplement her ‘object-orientated’ approach with the language of social reproduction, which Honig does not employ. Public things, or better the institutions and practices necessary to reproduce life and labour, have received scant theoretical attention because, quite bluntly, they are associated with dependence, which is in turn associated with women." (339)