The 37th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture
One Person is No Person
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17640946 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Ormay (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 344-368 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Group Analysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0533-3164 • E-ISSN: 1461-717X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0533316413498840 |
| OpenAlex | W2165701438 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 9 |
Our social nature had been an intelligent assumption for a long time, until biology demonstrated it in the 1960s. Psychoanalysis, the science of human nature has been based on selfish foundations, and its structural theory presents us with a single, lonely person of id, ego and superego. Even Foulkes, who based his group theories on psychoanalysis, could only speculate about our social nature, but gave us the fundamental notion of the social unconscious. In the 1960s biology scientifically demonstrated the social instinct. Yet, the various thinkers, who tried to enlarge group analytic thinking, continued speculating, and did not make use of the social instinct, although it was there. As if the body, the material part of us was not important, as if we existed all up there, in some higher regions. We need our body for love, and a theory good enough to understand it. What I have to offer is a personality theory based on instincts, or with other words, on the psychological affects of our genes. Our ego develops out of the older selfish instinct, as elaborated by psychoanalysis. But the new social instinct provides the foundations of our genuinely social nature, I call ‘nos’, Latin for ‘we’. Accordingly the new structural theory is made up of the id, ego and nos. On such a foundation we can build a consistent social group analytic theory
Epistemology · Id, ego and super-ego · Instinct · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Unconscious mind · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity
Concerto for Group Analysis
Tom Ormay, colleague and friend
Vote of Thanks and Response to Tom Ormay’s Foulkes Lecture
Lost in Translation? Reading Foulkes Today
On the Location of Nos
The Tower of Babel
The Capacity to Use the Group as a Corrective Symbiotic Object in Group Analytic Psychotherapy for Patients with Psychosis
Locating ‘Nos’ in the Dialectics of Instinct, Communication and Society
The Roots of Human Dialogue
Tom Ormay (1934–2022)
Group psychology and the analysis of the ego.
The Evolution of Altruistic Behavior
Group Selection and Kin Selection
Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality
Resolving social conflicts and field theory in social science
The Group-Analytic View of Culture and Civilization
The Social Unconscious
Treating the Family Matrix in the Group
Social Behaviour in Birds and Mammals
| Citations per year | 0.77 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |