ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a panoramic picture of the evolution of Andre Green’s thought, focuses on the elaboration of his clinical thinking, which is at once original and representative of contemporary developments—developments that, according to Green, have brought about a “silent revolution” in psychoanalytic practice. It offers the Greenian research process, which moves from the extension of the psychoanalytic field to clinical practice with non-neurotic structures, to a proposal to construct a new contemporary psychoanalysis. Psychoanalyst and historian Martin Bergmann was right when he said that Sigmund Freud, for better or for worse, left behind a psychoanalysis that was far less definitive and complete, and more open to problems and developments, than his early disciples had believed. According to Green, the contemporary project of building a new paradigm is very different from, and is in fact opposed to, the construction of yet another post-Freudian school or discourse.
