ABSTRACT
This final chapter aims to speak across the places of impossibility that have been revealed in the previous chapters: the unconscious anxieties and defences evoked by interactions between defended institutions, the defended self and defended others; the problem of identification and misrecognition in one-to-one communications and in the complex holding environment provided by the school; the difficulty of being in a group wanting both to belong and to be special; the dilemmas presented by basic assumption groups’ responses to the need to work; and the ways in which mental states and relationships can act to facilitate or block thought, thinking and, ultimately, learning.
