Greening of Psychoanalysis

Gregorio Kohon is a Fellow and Training Analyst of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and works in London in private practice. He edited 'The British School of Psychoanalysis: The Independent Tradition', and 'The Dead Mother: The Work of Andre Green'. He also published 'No Lost Certainties to be Recovered'; 'Love and its Vicissitudes' (co-authored with Andre Green), and 'Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience: Psychoanalysis and the Uncanny' (2015). He is also a poet and a writer. His new book, 'British Psychoanalysis - An Independent Tradition' is to be published in 2018. Rosine Jozef Perelberg, PhD, is a Fellow and Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society, Visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London, and Corresponding Member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society. She edited 'Gender and Power in Families' (with Ann Miller); 'Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide'; 'Female Experience: Four Generations of British Women Psychoanalysts on Work with Women' (with Joan Raphael-Leff); 'Freud: A Modern Reader'; 'Time and Memory'; and 'Dreaming and Thinking'. She is the author of 'Time, Space and Phantasy' and 'Murdered Father, Dead Father: Revisiting the Oedipus Complex' (2015). In 2007 she was named one of the ten women of the year by the Brazilian National Council of Women.

'The authors who contribute to The Greening of Psychoanalysis offer a kind of "Planet Green" that we are invited to explore and perhaps even inhabit analytically. They reside in the symbolic environment created by Andre Green. As Kohon reminds us, in the words of Shakespeare, "we are such stuff as dreams are made on". At the outset, Rosine Perelberg's impressive study highlights Green's major contributions on narcissism, thirdness, psychic temporality, and the death drives, as well as the openings towards the obscure domains of clinical practice with borderline patients. Poetry is never far from Green's discourse, as the unforgettable dead mother reminds us. The idea of the negative is to the unconscious what perspective was to painting in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries: it offers depth and space. The book is a testament to the eloquence and creativity that Green, as well as the authors inspired by him, have brought to all domains of human endeavour, be they clinical or aesthetic. We cannot be the same analysts after Green as we were before."- Jean Claude Rolland, Training Analyst of the Association Psychanalytique de France, author, and co-editor of the 30 volumes of Libres Cahiers Pour la Psychanalyse

• Preface , Foreword , Introduction , On death and destructiveness , Negative hallucinations, dreams, and hallucinations: the framing structure and its representation in the analytic setting , Troubled bodies: hypochondria, transformation, and the work of the negative , Some thoughts on the negative in the work of Eduardo Chillida , Intellectual generosity: the Greekness of Green , An interview with André Green: on a psychoanalytic journey from 1960 to 2011 , On clinical thinking: the extension of the psychoanalytic field towards a new contemporary paradigm