ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author presents scapegoating as manifested in one of its strongest forms during the early stage of a twice-a-week group-analytic group conducted by him in private practice. The group was formed in 1996, about two years before the sessions that will be described with a transcultural dimension, as its founding members included two German women, Katerina and Helka, and three Greeks, Vassilis, Aphrodite, and Angeliki. He suggests that the scapegoating which appeared in this group derived from the intersection and collision of a set of projective identifications the intensity of which resembles the projective identifications of patients with psychosis. The comparison of katerina’s “penetration” into the group with one similar to that of spaltpilz was the most lenient that could have been made and certainly did not have the anticipated results as a mother ought to do by absorbing the strong projections.
