The transitional objects of January 6

This article considers the religious signs and symbols of January 6, 2001 as transitional objects. Transitional objects occupy transitional space; they reside in and help to fill a gap. The intermediate or transitional space between inner life and external world Winnicott also refers to, provocatively, as a space of ‘illusory experience.’ What we do with our illusions, what we do in transitional space, can lie closer to health or to what Winnicott calls ‘madness.’ For Winnicott, ‘the substance of illusion … becomes the hallmark of madness when an adult puts too powerful a claim on the credulity of others, forcing them to acknowledge a sharing of illusion that is not their own.’.