ABSTRACT
This is one of the very few papers – perhaps the most important – in which Green specifically addresses analytic technique and the theory of the practice. It explores and elucidates the evolution of these topics in Freud and in post-Freudian contributions, and develops the singular variations and innovations demanded and inspired by clinical work at the limits of analysability with non-neurotic patients. Green emphasizes play in the analytic dialogue needed to create (and/or increase) the representational functioning (figurabilité) of the analysand and the intersubjective work that targets the patient's development of an intra-psychic capacity for symbolization.
