ABSTRACT
Conflict can lead to a hardening of lines of descent and to increased regulation of the participants to bring them into line within the existing striations. It may also lead to a questioning of some of our taken-for-granted ways of thinking and being. In this chapter I explore a clash between two five-year-old boys at Trollet, which took place over a period of two weeks. Trollet is an extraordinarily harmonious place, where moments of anger are rare. When anger erupted between Jonathan and Tom it caught my attention, demanding that I search for ways to extend my thinking and my capacity to listen. I found their anger distressing – it affected me. The anger was not confined in individual bodies, it flowed in-between, affecting us all.
