Author(s)

Giuliana Galli Carminati^1,2, Federico Carminati^2,3

¹Seoul National University (Bundang Hospital), Seoul, Republic of Korea.
²International Society of Multidisciplinary Psychoanalysis, Geneva, Switzerland.
³Physicist at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.

The aim of this paper is to explore the connections between the Jungian concept of collective unconscious, the Bionian group dynamics and the septenary schema elaborated by the Swiss psychoanalyst C. Baudoin, as a synthesis of the Freudian and Jungian topics. Borrowing (marauding) concepts from the above theories, we propose a theoretical analytical framework for our experience with the ASTRAG group training association in terms of psychoanalytical instances and their relations in the analytical group situation. We describe the history and activity of ASTRAG that we founded in 2005 at Geneva, Switzerland. This association has trained more than 100 people interested in group dynamics over 14 years. One of the main features of this training is that there is no money exchange of any sort. Participation is free and the training staff is made of volunteers who are not remunerated. Participants are accepted with no entry interview. We then conclude with some considerations on the effect of gratuity on the group analytical work.

Group Analysis, Group Psychical Apparatus, Collective Unconscious, Archetypes, Psychoanalysis

Carminati, G. and Carminati, F. (2019) The Marauding Paths of a Group Training. Psychology, 10, 1959-1983. doi: 10.4236/psych.2019.1014126.