Andre Green
André Green is a psychoanalyst who lives and works in Paris. He is Past-President of the Paris Psycho-Analytical Society and was Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He has been co-editor of the Nouvelle Revue de Psychanalyse. He has also written numerous books, including On Private Madness, The Work of the Negative, The Fabric of Affect in the Psychoanalytical Discourse, The Chains of Eros, Life Narcissism. Death Narcissism and Key Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
Illusions and Disillusions of Psychoanalytic Work
Illusions and Disillusions of Psychoanalytic Work recounts and explores the disappointing and sometimes tragic evolutions of the treatments of certain patients who are resistant to the effects of... (more)
The Dead Mother: The Work of Andre Green
This collection of essays explores the concept of the "dead mother" which refers to the process of mourning that takes place in the child following maternal depression, when the child experiences the... (more)
On Private Madness
Andre Green occupies a unique position in psychoanalysis today, and his work represents a synthesis of the traditions of Lacan, Winnicott and Bion. This volume collects fourteen of his papers... (more)
Play and Reflection in Donald Winnicott's Writings
The third book in the Winnicott Clinic Lecture Series contains a lecture from Professor Andre Green on Winnicott's theory on play. He discusses Winnicott's view on the importance of play and then... (more)
The Work of the Negative
The author draws attention to the work of the negative in Freud, examining aspects such as dream works and the work of mourning. The "work of the negative" refers to how we cope, or do not cope, with... (more)
Life Narcissism Death Narcissism
This title illustrates the number of forms of narcisssim met with in clinical practice, and draws attention to the duplicity underlying its structure. The author also shows that it is necessary to... (more)
Resonance of Suffering: Countertransference in Non-Neurotic Structures
Some sixty years after the "Controversial Discussions" in the early 40s, this passionate book resurrects their spirit on a global scale. Under André Green's generous, tactful yet strong leadership, a... (more)
Psychoanalysis: A Paradigm for Clinical Thinking
Andre Green shows how it is possible to introduce the concept of "clinical thinking" into psychoanalysis. He analyses, in particular, the modification of the clinical pictures on which Freud's work... (more)
The Chains of Eros: The Sexual in Psychoanalysis
Green deplores the absence of sexuality and the erotic from current psychoanalytic theory and practice. Instead, he demonstrates how human sexuality forms an 'erotic chain'. The work of analysis, he... (more)
Time in Psychoanalysis: Some Contradictory Aspects
In this book Andre Green sets out to restore the full richness of a theory which contemporary psychoanalysis has progressively tended to simplify with the aim of taming it and returning to a linear,... (more)
Love and Its Vicissitudes
In Love and its Vicissitudes Andre Green and Gregorio Kohon draw on their extensive clinical experience to produce an insightful contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding of love.... (more)
Fabric of Affect in the Psychoanalytic Discourse
This seminal work on the neglected topic of affect is structured in three parts: affect in psychoanalytic literature, clinical practice of psychoanalysis and theoretical study, and affect,language... (more)
Key Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Misrecognition and Recognition of the Unconscious
Andre Green attempts the complex task of identifying and examining the key ideas for a contemporary psychoanalytic practice. This undertaking is motivated both by the need for an outline of the... (more)
Diachrony in Psychoanalysis
The question of diachrony has been the author's preoccupation throughout his psychoanalytic career. It was at the centre of the debates during the era of structuralism and opened many issues for... (more)