ABSTRACT

At the Untouchable International Conference (IIGA, 2013, AGonen, Golan Heights) the lecture “Untouchable ‘infant gangs’ in the group-analytic matrix” began with Simon and Garfunkel’s song about coldness and withdrawal from love and friendship. Despite its content, it warmed people’s hearts and many from the audience joined in the singing. Was the music slowly dissolving the untouchable, or were the memories of the Swinging Sixties’ pop–rock movement and its enthusiastic ganging activating the youthful spirit?