Illusions and Disillusions of Psychoanalytic Work

Andre Green

• Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series , Preface , Introduction , Presentation , Theoretical Study , From the treatment of neuroses to the crisis of psychoanalysis , Lacanian thinking on language , The setting and its interpretation , Die Entstellung , The metaphorization of analytic speech , The negative therapeutic reaction , The notion of failure , Variety of traumas , Some effects of the primitive superego , The ego prior to repression , Libidinal styles , Drive fusion and defusion , The modifications of the ego and the work of the negative , Diverse critical situations and acute somatizations , Causes and remedies , Recent suggestions concerning the treatment of cases resistant to the therapeutic effect of analysis , Methodological principles of psychoanalysis and the psychotherapies , Conclusions , Clinical Study , (A) Some examples drawn from the experience of collaborators , (B) Personal memories of some case histories , Illusions and Disillusions of Psychoanalytic Work , The internalization of the negative , Hypotheses concerning the negative beyond clinical findings , An encounter at the end of the journey , Postscript