ABSTRACT
THE he term group analysis is distasteful to many analytical psychologists. Underlying their attitude is an assumption that the group is synonymous with an organization of collective standards, incompatible with the development of unique individuality, which is the goal of analysis. Jung, however, has stressed that individuation has two essential aspects, "an internal and subjective process of integration" and an equally indispensable process of objective relationship" (Jung, 1946, Coll. Wks., 16, p. 234). His statements that "individuation does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself' (Jung, 1947, trans, p. 435), and that "relationship to the self is at once relationship to our fellowman" (Jung, 1946, Coll. Wks., 16, p. 23 3) suggest that the concept of the self must include modes of integration which operate in interpersonal relationships. The importance of the study of transference relationships has been underlined by Jung and others, but it has been assumed, all too often, that, by extension from the material of personal analyses, valid pronouncements can be made about larger groups and about society in general.
