Abstract

AVILA, Lazslo Antonio. Groups: the psychoanalytical perspective. Vínculo [online]. 2007, vol.4, n.4, pp.17-25. ISSN 1806-2490.

This work consists in a series of steps, based on psychoanalytic and group analytic authors (mainly W. R. Bion and R. Kaës), to construct a conceptual model apt to describe groups as an object of investigation in their own right, both separated from and intertwined with the representations of the individual. In a formula, we might say: the group is not the sum of individuals - it is the individual who is, within himself, a group, or an expression of groups. It is the group that is the real subject of human reality. The individual is merely a creation.

Keywords : Group; Individual; Psychoanalysis; Group analysis.