Abstract
The first chapter of the book locates the present work in context and makes a case for it identifying the need for an attention to young children’s existential encounters in their everyday lives. Interested in the subjective meanings and the affective qualities of children’s relationship with the existential, the present work sets out to explore how it is present in the child’s play, in her ordinary doing and her very being with herself and with others. Brought out of its clinical training application, psychoanalytic observation is presented as a method of research that is closely attentive to children’s interior worlds as they unfold symbolically in her play and in her relationship with the observer. The present work sets out to inquire into the space that psychoanalytic observation has for young children’s existential encounters and to explore the possibility of an integrative psychosocial approach towards them by moving between the interior and the exterior, the self and the other. The chapter concludes with an overview of the structure of the book and the subsequent sections.
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