Foulkes’ Roots in Trigant Burrow’s Writings

Abstract

Given the subject of the present workshop, a few hints on the ‘development in intersubjectivity’ in group analysis will show that from psychoanalysis to group analysis Trigant Burrow’s work has focused on intersubjectivity since its inception, forestalling the ‘so called’ intersubjective schools in psychoanalysis. Brief historical notes on psychoanalysis and group analysis are presented to show how historical reports, more or less unconsciously, may be affected by ungrounded accounts which, through transpersonal and transgenerational processes, may be perpetuated to the detriment of knowledge and of its advance. Finally, through the presentation of Burrow’s main group analytic concepts and methods, the burning issue of the roots of group analysis are discussed, which are unquestionably in Burrow’s writings.