ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the experiences in the “two-body psychology” group, that is, psychoanalysis proper, formed by the basic group: two people in a room, trying to converse. The formidable caesura provided by groups composed of more than two people clouds the formidable continuities between two-body groups and larger groups, even though Wilfred Ruprecht Bion’s contributions on groups emphasise those continuities. Analysis seems to be a last resort for some people who feel entitled to exclude real life from their lives. Patients often resort to the phantastic state of hallucinosis to become entitled to feel excluded from the analytic situation due to what Bion called reversion of perspective. The Sixth Basic Assumption may be useful to illuminate more than intra-group issues. Analysts often say that the encircling milieu hates, isolates and excludes analysts and analysis.
