Depuis la mort de Freud, la psychanalyse a connu un développement répondant à l’extension de ses indications. Il s’est ensuivi certaines avancées qui ont correspondu à des conquêtes nouvelles, mais aussi à de nombreuses désillusions, généralement passées sous silence dans les écrits des psychanalystes. S’appuyant sur une étude théorique fouillée, André Green propose une vaste investigation clinique qui décrit de nombreux exemples où le travail analytique s’est révélé décevant. Comment expl...

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 analyti...

'Living with the idea of bearing a death-force fundamentally directed at oneself is hardly easy to admit. It is less so in any case than the idea that we are all murderers, that we are ever ready to plead legitimate defence or the need to survive so as to strike out at another.' Andre Green, from the Foreword What drives men to kill and self-destruct? On the Death and Destruction Drives traces the introduction and development of the controversial concept of the "death drive", from the work...

O que conduz a humanidade a se matar e a se autodestruir? Este livro apresenta a introdução e o desenvolvimento do polêmico conceito de "pulsão de morte", desde a obra de Freud, de 1920 a 1938, até as principais contribuições de autores clássicos e pós-freudianos, como Ferenczi, Klein, Bion, Winnicott, Lacan etc. Lançando luz sobre fenômenos e estruturas não neuróticas (anorexia, bulimia, depressão, suicídio, comportamento criminoso), o texto visa oferecer uma nova perspectiva sobre a rela...

La pensée habite des champs d’activité divers. Elle peut être philosophique, scientifique ou religieuse. Mais elle ne peut pas, à moins de renoncer à l’exigence théorique qui la fonde, investir le domaine de la clinique. Et pourtant… Comment qualifier le mode de rationalité issu de la pratique psychanalytique ? Comment rendre compte du travail de pensée qui est à l’œuvre dans l’expérience de la cure ? André Green montre de quelle façon il est possible d’introduire en psychanalyse le concep...

La sexualité n'est plus la même que du temps où Freud en a théorisé le fonctionnement psychique. Ses successeurs, quand ils n'en ont pas relativisé l'importance, lui ont assigné une tout autre place que celle que Freud lui avait originellement donnée. Il est donc temps de repenser la problématique du sexuel au regard de la psychanalyse contemporaine, et cela d'autant que la sexualité reste un élément essentiel de la construction psychique. C'est donc à une véritable entreprise de re-fondat...

The author 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 together with a substantial introduction. The papers range widely across clinical and theoretical issues including borderline states, the true and false self, and narcissism. On Private Madness has achieved the status of a modern psychoanalytic classic, and this new impression will be welcomed...

Dans Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, les sortilèges d’Obéron font que le filtre extrait d’une fleur, quand il est enduit sur les paupières d’un dormeur, rend amoureux de la première personne aperçue au réveil, ce qui conduit à des situations cocasses : la reine Titania s’amourache d’un âne. Dans Antoine et Cléopâtre, la reine d’Égypte séduit Marc Antoine après la mort de Jules César et exerce sur lui une influence telle que ses entreprises tournent à la catastrophe et au suicide des amants. Dan...

The third book in the Winnicott Clinic Lecture Series contains a lecture from the author on Winnicott's theory on play. He discusses Winnicott's view on the importance of play and then moves on to presenting his own, somewhat contradictory, view on it. The author provides an innovative and provocative perspective on the subject, inviting people to think independently rather than accepting theories already laid out for them.

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 argues, consists in following the dynamic movements of the erotic process, by ascertaining its links with other aspects of the psyche.

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 analytic work. In this book the author reports cases taken from his own experience and that of his collaborators. The author points out moreover, that such cases have never been absent from the series of analysands that he has treated, from the early days of his practice up until today, w...

André 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 evolution of psychoanalysis since Freud's death, and by the hope of tackling the fragmentation which has led to the current 'crisis of psychoanalysis'.In three sections covering the theoretical and practical aspects of psychoanalysis, and analysing the current state of the field, Andr...