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Without being a bona fide psychosomatician, André Green was close to French psychosomatic psychoanalysis and P. Marty. He shared with them an interest in affect, to fight against the Freudian and Lacanian focus on speech in France, as well as the negative hallucination of the body and emotion, and the clinical observation of the void left by the dead mother. His notion of “unrepresentable lived experiences” for lack of an object for the drive leads him to privilege instinctual motion, the embryo of psychosomatic intentionality. The foreclosure of certain original fantasies can be deduced from his ideas on pre-psychic movements, in connection with Mr. Fain's psychosomatic lineages.