Young Children's Existential Encounters

Part 1. 1.In search of a space. 2. Children's existential encounters in literature. 3. The self-in-reverie: thinking psychoanalytic observation with relational psychoanalysis and feminist writings on meaning. Part 2: Reading, dreaming, writing, asking, playing, thinking with; reliving the observations kaleidoscopically.- The children.- The nursery. 4.Nothingness; May and Gaston Bachelard.- 5.Strangeness; Nadia and Albert Camus. 6.Ontological insecurity; Edward and Ronald Laing. 7.Death: loss and growth; Baba. 8.Selfhood; Eilidh and Fernando Pessoa. Part 3. 9.Theoretical, interpersonal and unconscious liminality in psychoanalytic observation as a space for young children's existential encounters.