ABSTRACT
The chapter takes up some threads from previous chapters and reflects on them as a gestalt under the generic notion of discourse. It considers the normative side of learning, its use as upholding specific notions of power and the control thereof. It concludes by considering the redemptive bias of the Kleinian school of psychoanalytic thinking and proposing that the acceptance of the impossibility of satisfaction of desire results in a mourning that needs to be recognized and come to terms with towards a productive future of the past in the practice of group relations in particular, while avoiding a totalizing discourse in general.
