According to Green, psychoanalysts have lost the fundamental complexity of Freudian temporality and act as if time proceeded linearly from past to present to future. The debate over here-and-now transference interpretations, as opposed to reconstruction, disguises just such a reductive linearity. Two types of time existed for Green. The first takes fact into account; the second makes use of the regression afforded by sleep to ignore the passage of time. Freud was not talking about a regression to a reconstituted past, which would bring one back to linearity, but a regression to outdated means of expression and to images that represent wishes, as opposed to words that convey those wishes.