ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses certain aspects of the problem of context, primarily in order to illustrate the distinguishing feature of group analysis or group-analytic psychotherapy, namely: the clinical application of the axiom that, the nature of the "human" is social, and of the "social" human, at all stages of the life cycle and at all phases of history. It states the problem in formal terms, and then illustrates it with a brief clinical vignette, which includes the author's interpretation and its aftermath. The chapter indicates very briefly a few of the implications of the author's approach and some of the literature associated with it. The author believes that his more general remarks apply to dyadic therapy, including psychoanalysis proper. "Context" refers to those parts of a text which precede and/or follow a particular passage, and which are sufficient in number to enable a person to determine the meaning or meanings which the author intended.
