Green asks, can one attribute to an affect the function of representation? And if such a function exists, how can it be integrated into the psychoanalytic concepts of the psyche? Freud focused on this issue for a short period in his work, essentially in the metapsychological papers leading up to The Ego and the Id. His later work, however, shows more than a negligence of the problem, something more like disdain, as commentators have noted. When one compares the definitions he gives of