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The Greening of Psychoanalysis is a collection of papers delivered at a scientific conference organized by the British Psychoanalytical Society in 2015. The conference was organized by the two editors of the book: Rosine Jozef Perelberg and Gregorio Kohon. Participants were invited to talk about the ways in which Green's complex and thoughtful work has influenced their own thought and clinical practice. Since the conference occurred, only two years after Green's death, the atmosphere at the conference was imbued with both a feeling of memorial to Green and a tribute to his contributions to psychoanalytic thought. Sadness and hope were intermixed, sadness because of the recent loss, hope because the ideas and work left to us by Green represent innovative and intriguing aspects of psychoanalytic thinking that (deliberately) have no point of closure or resolution; in that sense, Green's thought is meant to be forever flourishing and renewed.
The subtitle of this book is Andre Green's New Paradigm in Contemporary Theory and Practice. And indeed, as we read through the essays and learn more about the evolution of Green's work and thought, we come to realize that the project for his life's work was both backward and forward looking, as psychoanalysis is itself. With a profound understanding of Freud and many after him (especially J. Lacan, W. R. Bion, and D. W. Winnicott but also many others who are not from the field of psychoanalysis), Green found profundity and richness in the work of previous analytic thinkers. His return to Freud (very different from Lacan's) illuminated aspects of Freud's texts that had gone either unnoticed or passed over without much recognition or impact. He wanted to integrate these ideas with the unique and creative insights that he formulated himself and, in this integration, conceptualize a contemporary view of psychoanalysis, both in theory and practice. He was convinced that without this reworking and creative innovation, the field would wi