ABSTRACT
This chapter re-examines the group-analytic ideas of mirroring and resonance using the feminist concept of diffraction. After a review of the Foulkesian idea of the mirror reaction, Barad’s idea of diffraction is presented. This suggests a greater range of points of identification rather than the two-dimensional reflection of a mirror. This is further developed with reference to Haraway’s own development of the idea and her critique of reflexivity as merely reproducing the same order. Finally, clinical examples are used to illustrate the possibilities engendered by using a diffractive understanding in the group.
