ABSTRACT
From 1918 to 1924, there is a six-year hiatus during which, having questioned the theoretical basis of the Freudian psychoanalysis, Burrow suspended his psychoanalytic practice in order to dedicate himself in toto, through the innovative group analytic method, to the research and clinical testing of the social principles included in his first psychoanalytic formulations. In 1924, on the basis of his six years of group experimentation, he broke his silence and resumed writing, starting this new cycle with two noteworthy theoretical works, wherein he exposed the new foundations that should constitute the theoretical structure of group analysis as a social conception of the human being. Both are astonishing: in the former, the concepts of "social unconscious" and "social images" are introduced for the first time and connected to the assumption of roles; the latter subverts the process of the observation.
