ABSTRACT
Foulkes and Anthony used the expression 'social unconscious'. They wrote, There is, however, an additional advantage of the group situation to which attention may be called here. This is the opportunity it affords for the exploration of what may be called the ‘social unconscious’. Each individual’s feelings and reactions will reflect the influences exerted on him by other individuals in the group and by the group as a whole, however little he is aware of this. The small therapeutic group also represents for its members other people in general, or even the whole community. In the classical structural theory of personality, the id would do anything for pleasure. It is not concerned with morals, or with survival in the real external world. Sensitivity to social life has always been an attribute of psychoanalysis, but the classical id, ego, and superego structure has been used to the present day, and it is not suitable for a deeper analysis of social phenomena.
