ABSTRACT
The negative hallucination creates a potential space for the representation and investment of new objects and the conditions in which the activities of thinking and symbolisation can take place. The hallucinations represent a failure in the capacity for an internal, unconscious representation that are turned into perceptions. Andre Green states that when holding her infant, the mother leaves the impression of her arms on the child, and this constitutes a framing structure that, contains the loss of the perception of the maternal object and a negative hallucination of it. The mother’s absence and the activity of phantasy that her absence gives rise to within the framing structure lies at the heart of Green’s formulation about the psychoanalytic setting itself. In The Interpretation of Dreams, S. Freud postulated “conditions of representability” “as one of the characteristics of the dream work”.
