Fatherhood revisited: the dead father, fraternal pact and analytic filiation in the work of

The prolific work of André Green can be defined as a search for a new contemporary psychoanalytic thinking capable of overcoming the impasses and fragmentation of post-Freudian models. From “The Freudian Unconscious and Contemporary French Psychoanalysis” (1960)1 to Key Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis (2002), his writings can be seen to be directed, even propelled, by the issue of the contemporary. This investigation results in the construction of a personal theoretical and clinical model that articulates a reconceptualization and renovation of both the metapsychological foundations and the method of psychoanalysis.