The Greening of Psychoanalysis

The present book brings together a group of eminent psychoanalysts from different parts of the world, all of whom presented the papers included in this volume at the 2015 Conference on The Greening of Psychoanalysis. Every one of these texts conveys a rich sense of continuing a conversation.

The influence of Andre Green on psychoanalysis has been immeasurable - his theoretical, clinical and cultural contributions have identified him as one of the most important psychoanalytic thinkers of our times. The present book brings together a group of eminent psychoanalysts from different parts of the world, all of whom presented the papers included in this volume at the 2015 Conference on The Greening of Psychoanalysis. Every one of these texts conveys a rich sense of continuing a conversation, always creative, albeit challenging, forever engaging and fruitful, with Andre Green. This book is an invitation to the reader to join in.

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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.

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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