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12: From Parties to Projective Identification: Why is Group Life so Hard? feat. Christine Smallwood

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Intelligible Field of Study

Abby: I want to say one or two other things about this book before we get into a whole suite of questions about it. Bion says that Freud's key insight is that you can't actually tackle neurosis in the individual, even though like Christine said, he's like psychoanalysis is only this thing that happens between two people,. You can't do it in groups. That field calls it the intelligible field of study. It seems like time has like our desire or an anxiety and our like mental visions of groups together form., she writes.

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