Abstract
The author undertook a self-curated independent study that led her to consider the elements of the ontology of being a whole human. Thomas Ogden, D. W. Winnicott, and poetry were integral to the experience. While contemporary psychoanalytic constructs such as object relations, fantasy, enactment, early development, and the interpersonal remain the theoretical bedrock in our work, the mounting politico-cultural fragmentation and social crises of the present moment makes it more imperative than ever that we contemplate and engage with our patients and ourselves as whole humans and all that that wholeness implies. The author identifies seven components—love, authenticity/truth, aliveness, solitude, dialectical influence, loss, and bodily autonomy—as crucial contributors to the creative composite that is being a whole human. The author considers each component with reference to specific poems and to Ogden’s and Winnicott’s writings and lived beings.
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