The Good Story by J. M. Coetzee

Author:J. M. Coetzee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

Group experiences: music, football, ecstatic religion. Shared ‘knowledge’ within the group. Theoretical problems about group thought. The individual versus the group: personal experience in South Africa. Nationalism as regressive group experience. Bion on group thinking. Eugène Marais on the collective soul. The experience of being born into a large (extended) family. The nature of group activity, past and present-day. Group labour and alienation. Voluntary versus involuntary group membership. School classes as groups. Regressive behaviour in the classroom. Childhood gangs.

Positive, non-regressive aspects of nationalism. Understanding group mentality. The neonate’s experience of the group. The family triad as fundamental group. The National Health Service as collective endeavour. Alienation within the present-day NHS. The family as training ground for success in the group. Oedipal development. The depressive position (Klein) as it impacts on group life. ‘Triangular space’ (Ronald Britton) and accommodation of the self to the group. Consequences of failure to attain the third position.

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