Green A. Key Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Misrecognition and Recognition of the Unconscious

London: Routledge, 2005 — 344 p. — ISBN10: 1583918396; ISBN13: 978-1583918395.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, André Green provides a stimulating overview of the principal concepts that have guided his work. Subjects covered include: transference and countertransference; psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: modalities and results; language-speech-discourse in psychoanalysis; recognition of the unconscious.Tthis unique contemporary perspective on the psychoanalytic enterprise will fascinate all those with an interest in the problems that face the field and the opportunities for its future development.The work of psychoanalysis
Therapeutic indications
Setting - process - transference
Transference and countertransference
Clinical worlcThe organizing axes of pathology
Psychoanalysis (es) and psychotherapy (ies): Modalities and results
Freud's epistemological breaks
Opening the way for a renewal of the theory
Analysis of the material and its component parts
Space (s) and time
Configurations of thirdness
Language - speech - discourse in psychoanalysis
The work of the negative
Recognition of the unconscious
Philosophical references
Scientific knowledgeProvisional conclusions