Large, Small and Median Groups in Group Analysis

Abstract

In the large group philogenetic regression is very easy. It concerns more ‘the masses’. The large group is more concerned with the primordial level of the Foulkes’ matrix, with the archetypal representations of the collective unconscious. The small group, the ‘family group’, is more concerned with transferential phenomena of the matrix. In the median group, the social group, the transference phenomena almost disappears and the specific non-transferential phenomena of group analysis occurs: mirroring, resonance, ego-self training in action etc., are in the foreground, together with the archetypal representations of the primordial level of the matrix.