ABSTRACT
André Green’s development as an author reflects an increas-ingly complex synthesis of the work of Freud and variouspost-Freudian contributors, especially Lacan, Winnicott, and Bion. Anchoring his research in contemporary clinical practice, Green created an ever-expanding, personal, and original theoretical model that contains its own concepts and offers unique contributions to psychoanalytic theory and technique. Foremost among these are the ideas formulated under the heading, “the work of the negative” (Green, 1993). The latter include Green’s ideas about thinking, both in its normal/neurotic development and in the disturbances that occurred in what he called “limit cases”, that is, borderline, psychosomatic, and other non-neurotic disturbances.
