ABSTRACT
This chapter provides to indicate the direction our thinking should take in the search for principles on which to build a meta-theory of group analysis. The establishment of group-analytic group therapy on the principles of a meta-theory and epistemology has constituted a major quest in group analysis and psychotherapy since the era of W. R. Bion, S. H. Foulkes and Foulkes and E. J. Anthony, to whom we owe the first attempts in this regard. The theoreticians and clinicians in question seek to establish a radical differentiation between the group-analytic epistemological model and the psychoanalytic one or between the individual and the social, the person and the group. On the contrary, group analysis constitutes a much richer and more fertile means of approaching and decoding reality, as it reduces psychic conflict to psycho-social and socio-political conflict in the creation of which an important role is played by the social other.
