ABSTRACT
The caregivers' group is meeting for the third year under the supervision of two psychoanalysts of the Genoese Centre of Psychoanalysis who play different roles in the group: a conductor and a participating observer. The conductor psychoanalyst remarks that the group is trying to piece their story together, revisit their grief, their errors, their losses. The narration is full of emotion and, while she is talking, Paola often indicates the empty chair of the absent psychoanalyst. The conductor psychoanalyst invites the group to reflect on the communication that seems to suggest a problem of addiction in the group, toxic addiction to their own experience of absence that seems to prevent a change; a kind of learning deficit, a degenerative disease of the group that has often been reported. The group speaks about the two psychoanalysts; when one of them was absent, they tried to keep them together, to preserve an image of fake beauty.
