ABSTRACT
Andre Green spoke about changes in psychoanalysis, plumbing aspects of D. W. Winnicott and Wilfred R. Bion, his paper dedicated to Winnicott, particularly emphasising changes in theory and practice in relation to borderline dynamics. In The Psychotic Core, the author brought out how central it was in Freud's work as well, although often in implicit ways. The structures Freud elaborated later in his life had roots in aspects of psychotic phenomenology. In a flash another dimension, a sense of psychoanalytic humour, playfulness, enables the "serious" to seep more deeply. Green's sensibility moves towards focus on madness through text-analysis and clinical realities. In particular, Green focuses on borderline dynamics, naming four defences or ways of expressing a double root of madness, a central double anxiety: intrusion-abandonment anxiety. A basic clinical problem that exercised Winnicott was depersonalisation, feeling unreal to oneself, an important theme for Melanie Klein and Bion as well.
