ABSTRACT
Mrs. Murphy, the ex-student of education, who most of the time had sat in silence, styled this hatred 'holy rage'. Its cause is the men's weakness. This weakness is best illustrated with the example of Mrs. Faulkner's impotent boy-friend, a war invalid, but it also shows in the men's actual behaviour in the group. Mrs. Sinfield's case illustrated the theme of the 'rejecting mother' in its clearest form. After initial hesitation she began to work through her feelings of shame and guilt. The eroticism which was first activated in relation to the conductor began to spread to the participants' relationships among themselves. Negative experiences in love relationships were due to the fixation of the libido to a disappointing mother relationship. This was the general theme of the group from the ninety-first session onwards. Both sexes' aggressive, rejecting and thoroughly disparaging behaviour towards each other turned out to be nothing but revenge against the mother of one's childhood.
