Green suggests that psychoanalysis is so somber about its future because it is still mourning its founder. Freud is dead. Freud is no longer able to revise his work according to what he has discovered through psychoanalytic practice. Moreover, for all our respect for Freud's genius, we have come to see him as a man of his time. He thought as a man did at the beginning of the century, and time has passed his epistemology by. Freud had blind spots in certain areas, but no successor has been able to put things right, so that we are left now with critical work only. We find criticism of Freud from within psychoanalysis and criticism from without. Green reviews the historical connotations of the word "object" and the multiple Freudian and classical psychoanalytic uses of the word. There have been modifications of the term by later writers, especially Winnicott. Green believes that Winnicott's work is important for the future of psychoanalysis. Unless psychoanalysis continues to develop, it will rest on the position of classical analysis, which, he feels, is an embalmed corpse.