Of Varying Landscapes André Green and Non-Neurotic Structures

Biographical Chronology 

Texts and Translations 

A Plea for the Nameless 

1. Three Moments 

2. Constance: A Case Study 

3. Non-Neurotic Structures  

Appendix: Some Background to the Debate on Modifying Psychoanalytic Technique 

Glossary 

Biography

Steven Jaron is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst working at the 15-20 National Vision Hospital and in private practice. He is a member of the Freudian Psychoanalysis Society (SPF), Paris. 

'Through three inflection moments, Steven Jaron sets out André Green’s essential contributions to psychoanalytic psychotherapy, his profound insights into borderline states, and the importance he attributed to the negative. This book constitutes an essential guide for clinicians and theorists alike, offering new perspectives on the current challenges posed by the handling of the transference with non-neurotic structures. It demonstrates the extent to which Green’s ideas continue to reshape contemporary psychoanalytic practice.'

François Lévy, Psychoanalyst, former Vice-President of the Freudian Psychoanalysis Society (SPF), Paris

 

‘This seminal book brings together André Green’s key contributions to the renewal of psychoanalytic practice and technique, expanding the field of psychoanalytic for work with non-neurotic structures. Steven Jaron explores this immensely important theoretical and clinical area of psychoanalysis from its beginnings. Drawing on André Green’s long and rich experience in observing and treating these often daunting transference configurations, he succeeds in clearly describing their variety and complexity. This is a brilliant exposition, a highly effective combination of the history of ideas, education, and psychoanalytic thinking and practice.’

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, MD, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Columbia University, Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and the Paris Psychoanalytic Society

‘This remarkable study traces the evolution of André Green’s most original contribution to psychoanalysis: the extension of analytic thinking beyond the classical paradigm of neurosis. Following Green’s work from Bonneval to London and Val-David, the book shows how he transformed psychoanalytic understandings of the frame, absence, symbolization, and countertransference in response to borderline and non-neurotic patients. 

At its centre is a moving and clinically sophisticated account of the treatment of “Constance,” a woman haunted by psychic deadness, fragmentation, and traumatic absence. Through the unfolding of a long analysis, affect, mourning, and symbolic life gradually emerge in the shadow of what Green termed “the work of the negative.” 

Bringing together Green’s major concepts — the dead mother complex, private madness, psychic desertification, and the analytic object — this profoundly humane and theoretically rich work stands as a major contribution to contemporary psychoanalytic thought and to the understanding of psychic survival after early emotional catastrophe.'

Rosine Perelberg, Distinguished Fellow, British Psychoanalytic Society. 2023 winner of the Sigourney Award