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"the paradox of human knowing: that the more we understand a person, the more acutely we become aware of the ways in which we do not know him or her. The struggle that anthropologists and psychoanalysts have in common, then, is the struggle to come to terms with a sense of partial failure" (450)"Analysts and anthropologists want to know what it is like to think like the other person, to assume that person's analogies, play in her/his idioms, anticipate her/his startlement" (450)"The analysts, of course, have also a therapeutic aim, which the anthropologists, at least explicitly, do not.

Spencer (2011) argues for affect in anthropological field work and pedagogical training. Anthropologists and anthropological training should include more reflexive and embodied work. Spencer highlights how important affect and embodied experiences are for qualitative research, anthropology in particular. She provides five steps to improving the field of teaching and learning in anthropology. A more embodied and affective approach to anthropology only serves to enhance the research that comes out of the field.

“The transformations during anthropological fieldwork are affective experiences and the knowledge we gain and share in the field is affective as well as cognitive.

"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.

Kellond (2019) interweaves Winnicott’s psychoanalytic theories with counter-cultural movements. Winnicott’s work and emphasis on social welfare fertilized the environment for the 1960s and 1970s counter-cultural movements. In addition, Kellond highlights the importance of Winnicott’s work in relation to mothering and interdependence. While the famous psychoanalytic didn’t challenge the division of labour, he helped pave the way for seeing the immense economic value in mothering.

“Winnicott, Phillips suggests, helps us to understand what motivates the perfectionism, materialism and ruthless drive for ever-increasing efficiency that define our age.

"When 'Critical Theory's is more narrowly intended to refer to the Frankfurt School and its heirs, Winnicott's thinking informs the work of both Jessica Benjamin (1977, 1978, 1990) and Axel Honneth (1995)" (324)"With the articulations of Philips and Nelson in mind, this article sets out to think about this recent interest in Winnicott in relation to the idea of 'counter-culture,' itself an unstable and contested term, admittedly.

"To deterritorialize psychoanalysis, consequently, can mean nothing less – although perhaps it will mean something more – than to remove it from the one constant that defines its formal operation and reproduction of its authority, and by this I mean the analytic space itself (i.e., to deterritorialize the very space in which the unconscious is produced and reproduced)." (69)"the psychoanalytic machine of interpretation operates by one simple procedure: to negate the subject of the statement in favour of the subject of enunciation.

“If not the death, than at least, one could say that the ‘end of psychoanalysis’ is also a possible future that belongs to this institution, in the moment when analysis must come to an end, and it may be necessary to ‘forget psychoanalysis’ to go on living without it.

Layton (2007) advocates for the clinical use of psychoanalytic and social theories. The author highlights how social and psychoanalytic theories are often neglected in medical settings and this has been a detriment to madical practice. Instead, clinical practitioners need to look more closely at the psycho-social worlds that their patients inhabit. Ultimately, many psychological issues are products of the social worlds that people inhabit. The author underscores the importance of looking at social and psychoanalytic theories to better treat psychological disorders in patients.