<p>‘This book offers a precious opportunity to engage with André Green’s revolutionary approach on psychoanalytic theoretical and clinical practice. The texts were selected by André Green himself in the year prior to his death and were revised by his wife Litza Guttieres-Green. The book gives access to some of Green’s oral presentations to congresses and to many of the concepts that he introduced, such as the internal framing structure of the analyst, the dichotomy between the dream and the act, and the distinction between passivity and passivation. It is a privilege to be able to engage once again with Green’s world, now published in English with a scholarly introduction by Howard B. Levine.’</p>

- Professor Rosine Perelberg, British Psychoanalytical Society; Sigourney Award Winner 2023 for outstanding contribution to psychoanalysis,

<p>‘André Green, one of the most influential analysts of our times, is well-known for expanding the field of psychoanalytic practice to the work with non-neurotic structures in a contemporary clinical model. This translation of his fundamental late developments concerning work with difficult patients is brilliant, giving us access to his thinking about the expansion of the Freudian paradigm and a renewal of psychoanalytic practice and technique. His expansion of the analytic frame by his introduction of the concept of “the internal framing structure of the analyst,” his extension of the notion of countertransference, and his offerings on the analytic and technical developments needed when working at the limits of analysability will prove useful for analysts and therapists at all levels who are engaged in the psychoanalytic treatment of difficult patients.’</p>

- Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, MD, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry, Columbia University; member, Société Psychanalytique de Paris and New York Psychoanalytic Institute; co-founder, Pulsion Institute,

Aiming to theoretically re-establish clinical practice, Green revisits the very foundations of the analytic method. He traces a new map of the psychoanalytic field, now redefined by the predominance of non-neurotic structures, and follows the Freudian technical model centered on the notion of transference, and the post-Freudian model emphasizing countertransference (or the "analyst's desire").

From this innovative perspective, Green distinguishes the myths from the realities of the analytic process, questions the extension of the concept of countertransference, reevaluates the technical articulations of interpretation and construction, and reformulates the relationships between repetition, memory, and elaboration. This volume closes with three essays on functioning at the limits of analyzability, including the remarkable theoretical-clinical study: “Sexuality in non-neurotic structures”.

The essays in this book were selected by Green in dialogue with Fernando Urribarri to make them accessible to a wider readership. They reflect the post-1974 elaborations and conclusions drawn from Green’s extensive clinical experience treating and supervising analytic work. They are a testament to Green’s determination to extend Freudian theory to adapt to contemporary clinical challenges, while consistently remaining within the Freudian paradigm. 

This is the perfect book to launch the pivotal French Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Voices, Classical Texts series. Filled with fresh ideas, it is essential reading for all psychoanalytic clinicians, academics, and trainees.

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André Green revisits the very foundations of the analytic method. He traces a new map of the psychoanalytic field and proposes a contemporary clinical approach informed by the analytic framework, notably introducing the concept of the analyst’s internal framework. It includes a preface from Fernando Urribarri and introduction from Howard B. Levine.

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About the author and contributors 

Author’s remarks to the French edition 

Editor’s remarks to the French edition 

Preface to the French edition by Fernando Urribarri

Introduction to the English edition by Howard B. Levine

Text sources 

1. The psychoanalytic frame: Its internalization by the analyst and its application in practice

2. The psychoanalytic process: Myths and realities

3. Issues of interpretation: Conjectures on construction

4. Repetition compulsion and the pleasure principle

5. Passivity—passivation: Jouissance and distress

6. The enigma of guilt and the mystery of shame

7. Sexuality in non-neurotic structures: Past and present

References 

Index

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The French Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Voices, Classical Texts series is devoted to the translation and dissemination of significant foundational and contemporary texts that represent the best and most interesting contributions from the French psychoanalytic tradition. The series editor is Howard B. Levine and the series is published with the support of the Boston Group for Psycho-Analytic Studies, Inc.

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781800133686
Publisert
2025-11-06
Utgiver
Karnac Books
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
222

Forfatter
Oversetter

Biografisk notat

André Green, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society (SPP), was one of the most pre-eminent figures of the contemporary psychoanalytic movement, both for his theoretical and clinical research and his role within institutions. In 1965, Green became a member of the SPP, of which he was President from 1986 to 1989. From 1975 to 1977 he was a Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association and from 1979 to 1980 a Freud Memorial Professor at University College London. He was elected an Honorary Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society.

He attended Jacques Lacan's seminars between 1961 and 1967, when he definitively broke with him. He then directed a seminar at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in Paris where he invited the great philosophers and authors of his time including, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Michel Serres, Jacques Derrida, Marcel Detienne, and René Girard. A great reader of D. W. Winnicott and a friend of W. R. Bion, he constantly bridged the gap between British, American, and French psychoanalytical research in a spirit of international openness and turned towards the future of psychoanalysis. His theoretical contributions – the dead mother, private madness, the work of the negative, the analytic third, and the analytic object – opened the way to psychoanalysis beyond neurosis, the hallmark of twenty-first-century psychoanalysis.

Many of his works, such as Life Narcissism, Death Narcissism, On Private Madness, and The Work of the Negative are classics of psychoanalytic literature.

Litza Guttieres-Green, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, full member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and the Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis, is the author of a number of articles on hysteria, psychic pain, and the feminine.