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.