ABSTRACT
This section introduces the concept of the psychoanalytical group. Through subjective topology, it shows how the discourse of the hysteric generates a definition of the social as pertaining to an imperative to have a value. This imperative is inseparable from the way a subject interprets their own existential positions on the basis of signifiers. Signifiers are further defined as expressions of the real of the subject that are differentiated by spaces of appearance and spaces of representation. The psychoanalytical group is defined in relation to expressions of the real of the subject. This section also explores how the discourse of the psychoanalyst helps show how a subject suffers following feelings of lack in the social.
