ABSTRACT

The Tripartite Matrix in the Developing Theory and Expanding Practice of Group Analysis explores the social unconscious in persons, groups and societies in terms of the "un-acknowledged" restraints and constraints of our social and cultural groupings.

In this context, Earl Hopper and an international team of contributors elucidate the theory and concept of the tripartite matrix as a tool for the deeper understanding of the human condition and for clinical work in various settings. They consider topics ranging from envy to intersectionality, and from addiction to the inability to mourn.

The Tripartite Matrix in the Developing Theory and Expanding Practice of Group Analysis will be of great interest to group analysts, psychoanalytical group therapists, psychoanalysts and psycho-dramatists, as well as to social scientists more generally. Its extensive bibliography will be of particular value to students.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction 1

part I|42 pages

The tripartite matrix of social systems

chapter 1|16 pages

The cornerstone, once more

chapter 3|15 pages

Improvised vocality of verbal communication in groups

A contribution to the conceptualization of the tripartite matrix in group analysis

part II|41 pages

Personifications and the interpersonal matrix

chapter 5|17 pages

Nikola Tesla and the social unconscious of Serbs

The dance of science with poetry, and of the earthly with the heavenly

chapter 6|13 pages

Sex, custom and madness

A case study of the personification of the tripartite matrix of South Africa by a South African psychiatrist

part III|41 pages

Personifications and clinical work

chapter 7|13 pages

Transference, countertransference, and the social unconscious

The bastion in clinical figurations in tripartite matrices

chapter 8|13 pages

Recognizing codes of superiority in clinical work

Social unconscious, racism, sexism, and other elements of intersectionality

chapter 9|13 pages

The white mirror

Face to face with racism in group analysis

part IV|102 pages

Topics

part Section A|38 pages

Envy & Gender

part Section B|30 pages

Addiction

chapter 14|14 pages

Dangerous desire

Addiction, consumption and recovery

part V|17 pages

Working in the tripartite matrix

chapter 18|15 pages

The Trilogy Matrix Event (TME)

A setting for collective reflection on social system dynamics of the tripartite matrix