ABSTRACT
In Chapter 16, authors Chabalgoity, de Souza Brito, and Ponce de León present 'specificity as a method for clinical understanding. The central hypothesis of this methodology is that group associative work, which is called interanalytical work, turns out to be a resonance chamber of the presented analytical situation. The framing seeks to reproduce aspects of the analytical session, so that the transferential and countertransferential phenomena emanating from the presented clinical material are displayed in the group’s associations and its different aspects are expressed by the different participants. The individual and group analytical device is in itself a facilitator for the emergence of different manifestations of the unconscious. Both in the transmitted sessions and in the group dynamics, dreams, reveries, occurrences, and associative evocations that refer to child sexuality occur, failed acts, displacements, transferential, and countertransferential phenomena that refer not only to the analytical pair but also to transferences between the group participants appear. Psychoanalytic theory emerges as different hypotheses and models with different levels of abstraction to understand the psychic phenomena while observing the clinical material. The group recreates the different emotional situations and transferential experiences that transform the material into a new spiral of resignification.
