Howard B. Levine is a member of the faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England East, a member of the faculty and supervising analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, and is in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is a founding member of the Group for the Study of Psychoanalytic Process and the Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies, Inc. Gail S. Reed practises psychoanalysis in New York City. She is the president and a founding member of the Group for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Process, a training analyst and founding member of the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute, anda training analyst of the Contemporary Freudian Society and the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Dominique Scarfone M.D., is full professor at the Department of Psychology of the Universite de Montreal where he teaches psychoanalytic theory, does clinical supervision, and conducts conceptual research with his doctoral students. A psychoanalyst in private practice, he is a supervising analyst, member of the Societe and of the Institut Psychanalytique de Montreal, French-speaking sections of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is associate editor of the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis' and a member of the editorial board of the 'Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis' as well of the international board of the 'Revue Francaise de psychanalyse'. He has published four books: 'Jean Laplanche' (PUF, 1997), 'Oublier Freud? Memoire pour la psychanalyse' (Boreal, 1999), 'Les Pulsions' (PUF, Que sais-je? , 2004) and 'Quartiers aux rues sans nom' (Paris, Editions de l'Olivier, Collection Penser/Rever, 2012). He is also the author of several book chapters and numerous articles in international journals. He is regularly invited to give seminars and conferences across Canada, the United States, France, Italy and Latin America.

• Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series , Clinical and theoretical aspects of representation: an introduction , Introduction: from a universe of presences to a universe of absences , An empty mirror: reflections on nonrepresentation , The colourless canvas: representation, therapeutic action, and the creation of mind , Presence and absence: theoretical studies , From traces to signs: presenting and representing , Psychic figurability and unrepresented states , “If one only knew what exists!” , “Non-represented” mental states , Clinical explorations , Drive, representation, and the demands of representation , Discovering an umbrella , In search of symbolization: the analyst’s task of dreaming , The inaccessible unconscious and reverie as a path of figurability , The process of representation in early childhood

'This collection of essays brings together a group of eminent colleagues, who, in a series of original, rigorously argued and clinically illustrated articles, each in their own way, unavoidably ends up engaging with important aspects of the work of the late Andre Green. The choice made by the editors of working on unrepresented states and processes of representation strongly resonates with Green's ideas on the 'work of the negative.' As a result, this volume affirms the stakes so deeply explored by Green and illustrates their major practical consequences for the treatment of non-neurotic patients. The reader will find here much food for thought and reflection on the psychoanalytic theory of psychical functioning and its clinical implications.'- Jean Luc Donnet, Full member and Supervising Analyst of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society (SPP), former director of the Jean Favreau Center for psychoanalytic treatment, author of The Analyzing Situation'These essays convey and explore the spirit of the analyst at work, who, like the artist, must keep alive and assemble fragments of experience in order to create new meaning. Reading this book is therefore an aesthetic experience, one that provides fresh and pleasant impressions that may lead to a new, personal and mind-expanding integration of analytic theory. One comes away with a heightened, more vivid perception of psychoanalysis and its transformative possibilities.'- Antonino Ferro, Training and Supervising Analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, and author of Avoiding Emotions, Living Emotions and Mind Works: Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis'Reading this remarkable collection of thinking by an outstanding group of contributors is like taking part in a master class. The authors address areas for which previous analytic theory has not sufficed, areas that lie beyond the narrowly neurotic even as they are also often present in the underlying character structure of those who are neurotic. How are empty places, absences as well as presences, to be understood within the mind at work? What is the import of such voids, what their origins, and what their effects on the individual and the analyst? What is the place and the impact of the non-thinking part of the mind, and how does it work? How one can grapple with and make sense of what is not represented is the patient's problem in living, the clinician's problem in practice.This compendium has such consistently rare richness of both clinical reports and conceptual depth as to be an important and significant advance in analytic understanding. We are presented the ideas of earlier thinkers and we are presented original extensions of knowledge, moving our understanding of seeming voids, of psychic processes before thinking, to a new level. It casts valuable light on dark places in the mind.'- Warren S. Poland

Howard B. Levine is a member of the faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England East, a member of the faculty and supervising analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, and is in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is a founding member of the Group for the Study of Psychoanalytic Process and the Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies, Inc. Gail S. Reed practises psychoanalysis in New York City. She is the president and a founding member of the Group for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Process, a training analyst and founding member of the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute, anda training analyst of the Contemporary Freudian Society and the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Dominique Scarfone M.D., is full professor at the Department of Psychology of the Universite de Montreal where he teaches psychoanalytic theory, does clinical supervision, and conducts conceptual research with his doctoral students. A psychoanalyst in private practice, he is a supervising analyst, member of the Societe and of the Institut Psychanalytique de Montreal, French-speaking sections of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is associate editor of the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis' and a member of the editorial board of the 'Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis' as well of the international board of the 'Revue Francaise de psychanalyse'. He has published four books: 'Jean Laplanche' (PUF, 1997), 'Oublier Freud? Memoire pour la psychanalyse' (Boreal, 1999), 'Les Pulsions' (PUF, Que sais-je? , 2004) and 'Quartiers aux rues sans nom' (Paris, Editions de l'Olivier, Collection Penser/Rever, 2012). He is also the author of several book chapters and numerous articles in international journals. He is regularly invited to give seminars and conferences across Canada, the United States, France, Italy and Latin America.

• Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series , Clinical and theoretical aspects of representation: an introduction , Introduction: from a universe of presences to a universe of absences , An empty mirror: reflections on nonrepresentation , The colourless canvas: representation, therapeutic action, and the creation of mind , Presence and absence: theoretical studies , From traces to signs: presenting and representing , Psychic figurability and unrepresented states , “If one only knew what exists!” , “Non-represented” mental states , Clinical explorations , Drive, representation, and the demands of representation , Discovering an umbrella , In search of symbolization: the analyst’s task of dreaming , The inaccessible unconscious and reverie as a path of figurability , The process of representation in early childhood

'This collection of essays brings together a group of eminent colleagues, who, in a series of original, rigorously argued and clinically illustrated articles, each in their own way, unavoidably ends up engaging with important aspects of the work of the late Andre Green. The choice made by the editors of working on unrepresented states and processes of representation strongly resonates with Green's ideas on the 'work of the negative.' As a result, this volume affirms the stakes so deeply explored by Green and illustrates their major practical consequences for the treatment of non-neurotic patients. The reader will find here much food for thought and reflection on the psychoanalytic theory of psychical functioning and its clinical implications.'- Jean Luc Donnet, Full member and Supervising Analyst of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society (SPP), former director of the Jean Favreau Center for psychoanalytic treatment, author of The Analyzing Situation'These essays convey and explore the spirit of the analyst at work, who, like the artist, must keep alive and assemble fragments of experience in order to create new meaning. Reading this book is therefore an aesthetic experience, one that provides fresh and pleasant impressions that may lead to a new, personal and mind-expanding integration of analytic theory. One comes away with a heightened, more vivid perception of psychoanalysis and its transformative possibilities.'- Antonino Ferro, Training and Supervising Analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, and author of Avoiding Emotions, Living Emotions and Mind Works: Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis'Reading this remarkable collection of thinking by an outstanding group of contributors is like taking part in a master class. The authors address areas for which previous analytic theory has not sufficed, areas that lie beyond the narrowly neurotic even as they are also often present in the underlying character structure of those who are neurotic. How are empty places, absences as well as presences, to be understood within the mind at work? What is the import of such voids, what their origins, and what their effects on the individual and the analyst? What is the place and the impact of the non-thinking part of the mind, and how does it work? How one can grapple with and make sense of what is not represented is the patient's problem in living, the clinician's problem in practice.This compendium has such consistently rare richness of both clinical reports and conceptual depth as to be an important and significant advance in analytic understanding. We are presented the ideas of earlier thinkers and we are presented original extensions of knowledge, moving our understanding of seeming voids, of psychic processes before thinking, to a new level. It casts valuable light on dark places in the mind.'- Warren S. Poland

Howard B. Levine is a member of the faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England East, a member of the faculty and supervising analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, and is in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is a founding member of the Group for the Study of Psychoanalytic Process and the Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies, Inc. Gail S. Reed practises psychoanalysis in New York City. She is the president and a founding member of the Group for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Process, a training analyst and founding member of the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute, anda training analyst of the Contemporary Freudian Society and the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Dominique Scarfone M.D., is full professor at the Department of Psychology of the Universite de Montreal where he teaches psychoanalytic theory, does clinical supervision, and conducts conceptual research with his doctoral students. A psychoanalyst in private practice, he is a supervising analyst, member of the Societe and of the Institut Psychanalytique de Montreal, French-speaking sections of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is associate editor of the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis' and a member of the editorial board of the 'Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis' as well of the international board of the 'Revue Francaise de psychanalyse'. He has published four books: 'Jean Laplanche' (PUF, 1997), 'Oublier Freud? Memoire pour la psychanalyse' (Boreal, 1999), 'Les Pulsions' (PUF, Que sais-je? , 2004) and 'Quartiers aux rues sans nom' (Paris, Editions de l'Olivier, Collection Penser/Rever, 2012). He is also the author of several book chapters and numerous articles in international journals. He is regularly invited to give seminars and conferences across Canada, the United States, France, Italy and Latin America.

• Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series , Clinical and theoretical aspects of representation: an introduction , Introduction: from a universe of presences to a universe of absences , An empty mirror: reflections on nonrepresentation , The colourless canvas: representation, therapeutic action, and the creation of mind , Presence and absence: theoretical studies , From traces to signs: presenting and representing , Psychic figurability and unrepresented states , “If one only knew what exists!” , “Non-represented” mental states , Clinical explorations , Drive, representation, and the demands of representation , Discovering an umbrella , In search of symbolization: the analyst’s task of dreaming , The inaccessible unconscious and reverie as a path of figurability , The process of representation in early childhood

'This collection of essays brings together a group of eminent colleagues, who, in a series of original, rigorously argued and clinically illustrated articles, each in their own way, unavoidably ends up engaging with important aspects of the work of the late Andre Green. The choice made by the editors of working on unrepresented states and processes of representation strongly resonates with Green's ideas on the 'work of the negative.' As a result, this volume affirms the stakes so deeply explored by Green and illustrates their major practical consequences for the treatment of non-neurotic patients. The reader will find here much food for thought and reflection on the psychoanalytic theory of psychical functioning and its clinical implications.'- Jean Luc Donnet, Full member and Supervising Analyst of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society (SPP), former director of the Jean Favreau Center for psychoanalytic treatment, author of The Analyzing Situation'These essays convey and explore the spirit of the analyst at work, who, like the artist, must keep alive and assemble fragments of experience in order to create new meaning. Reading this book is therefore an aesthetic experience, one that provides fresh and pleasant impressions that may lead to a new, personal and mind-expanding integration of analytic theory. One comes away with a heightened, more vivid perception of psychoanalysis and its transformative possibilities.'- Antonino Ferro, Training and Supervising Analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, and author of Avoiding Emotions, Living Emotions and Mind Works: Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis'Reading this remarkable collection of thinking by an outstanding group of contributors is like taking part in a master class. The authors address areas for which previous analytic theory has not sufficed, areas that lie beyond the narrowly neurotic even as they are also often present in the underlying character structure of those who are neurotic. How are empty places, absences as well as presences, to be understood within the mind at work? What is the import of such voids, what their origins, and what their effects on the individual and the analyst? What is the place and the impact of the non-thinking part of the mind, and how does it work? How one can grapple with and make sense of what is not represented is the patient's problem in living, the clinician's problem in practice.This compendium has such consistently rare richness of both clinical reports and conceptual depth as to be an important and significant advance in analytic understanding. We are presented the ideas of earlier thinkers and we are presented original extensions of knowledge, moving our understanding of seeming voids, of psychic processes before thinking, to a new level. It casts valuable light on dark places in the mind.'- Warren S. Poland