ABSTRACT
In the group session presented in Chapter Eight, the members occupy different positions with respect to unconscious knowledge. Andrew and Gina’s comments can help us understand the division between being and meaning. Andrew has gone through massive trauma. He does not find any meaning. Right now, he feels he is mostly existing. Because of his trauma, Andrew has a fragile hold on the imaginary and the symbolic that permitted him, before the family deaths, to be alienated into language like any neurotic subject. He is frightened by the regression that is taking place in the group and that he is beginning to find intolerable. He is fortunate, though, because his wife, Gina, has a better grasp on meaning, although Andrew feels despair.
