Description
Part 1 Freud: Freud - culturalist or nativist?; Freud - idealist or materialist?; the Freudian infant; the development of psychological structures; phylogeny; in and between groups; the Freudian view of groups; summary. Part 2 Foulkes: the basis of Foulkes' radical ideas; Foulkes' developmental model; modifying the Freudian developmental frame; between the internal and external; recasting the life and death instincts; three group-specific ideas; the matrix; a summary of the ideas of radical Foulkes; application of the theories; hostility and aggression; summary. Part 3 Interlude between Foulkes and Elias: interlude figuring out the ground; an overview of structuralism and post-structuralism. Part 4 Elias: figuration; power relations; symbol theory; a bird's eye view; power relations II; the preservation of power differentials. Part 5 Biology: hot air and desire; order and chaos; the co-operative gene; the evolution of culture; the return of group selection; free will and determinism; summary. Part 6 Elements of a post-Foulkesian group analytic theory: belonging; overview of Matte-Blanco's theory; the structure of thought; a digression; increasing the complexities of belonging; a partial summary; identity crisis; the emotional need to belong; from here to infinity - further structures of thinking; name-calling and hair-splitting; a reprise; a reformation of the notion of identity; mind the gap; conflict; power relations in action; the social unconscious; cultural transmission and cohesion; the therapy group; constraint and order.