ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the notion that there exists a group mind or psyche that the group comprises structures, organizations, and unconscious psychic processes that are specific to it and are not produced without the grouping. Clinical analysis has given an intuitive idea of the way in which group psychic reality is constructed and transformed. The chapter begins to set out more systematically the main concepts that make up psychoanalytic conception of the group, intersubjective relations, and the subject of the unconscious. It describes the role of unconscious psychic organizer played by seven principal internal groups in forming the group-object. These are: the body image, primal phantasies, the systems of object-relations, the network of identifications, the oedipal and fraternal complexes, imagos, and the agencies of the psychic apparatus, especially the ego. The system of object-relations is one of the forms of psychic groupality.
