Based on recent studies on the relationship between Heidegger's existential analytic and Winnicott's psychoanalysis which put emphasis particularly on the rejection by the English psychoanalyst of the metapsychological theoretical speculations, as well as his search for the experience lived and/or to be lived, the purpose of this communication is to explain the importance of the concept of experience for Winnicott, by showing some connections between the way Winnicott sees psychoanalysis and what would be expected from a scientific psychology built from Heidegger's existential analytic. This concept of experience may be seen in the way he formulates the method of the psychoanalytical treatment, which adds to Freud's classical conception, summarized in the formula "remembering, repeating and working through", other meanings and objectives for the analytical process which go beyond the experience concerning the elaboration of the repressed unconscious.
Elaboration of inconscious; Experience; Freud; Psychoanalytical treatment