ABSTRACT
Andre Green expresses grave concern that research will lead to the oversimplification of psychoanalytic knowledge. Daniel Stern studies the preverbal interactions, body movements, and affect-laden, observable, aconflictual communications between mother and baby. Green recognizes that it is interesting to observe the development of the infant more closely and carefully, but believes that psychological development should not be confused with the psychoanalytic endeavor, which can be done only in the consulting room, using the model of the mind that he endorses. According to Green, the dream is the basic paradigm and the lived experience of the child is not the material of psychoanalysis. A major dichotomy exists between Green's definition of psychoanalysis as "intrapsychic," with its model of psychic reality based on unconscious conflicts, the dream, and its processes, and Stern's notion of "observable interaction" between infant and mother, as being a legitimate part of psychoanalysis.
