ABSTRACT
This chapter explores concepts from the work of two influential members of Independent group: Andre Green, who develops some of Winnicott's central concepts as the core of borderline processes, and Thomas Ogden, who proposes the concepts of the 'Autistic-Contiguous position' and the 'Analytic Third'. Andre Green had a considerable influence on Independent and non-Independent practitioners alike, and acts in many ways as a unifying figure, bringing Kleinian exactitude to an Independent flexibility of thought, and a new concept of the destructive drive to both. Ogden is one of the key figures to bring together Kleinian and Independent ideas, and especially to conceptualise a new psychic position. Theory is generally less to the fore among Independents than Kleinians, and like Green, Ogden manages to link his own clearly Independent approach with Kleinian concepts. All three of the contributors, namely Khan, Green and Ogden illustrate the depth and range of the Independent imagination.
