The Lost Roots of the Theory of Group Analysis

Taking Interrelational Individuals Seriously

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7101330
AutoresJoshua Lavie (36 David Remez st., Tel-Aviv, Israel, 62192, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen38
Número4
Páginas519-535
Fecha de publicación2005-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGroup Analysis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0533-3164 • E-ISSN: 1461-717X
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0533316405058542
OpenAlexW1990731292
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas14

This paper is a micro-historical analysis of unpublished drafts of S.H. Foulkes – intended to be part of his ‘Theory Book’ on group analysis – together with a comprehensive new historical reading of Norbert Elias's published writings relevant to group analysis, focusing on two lost roots of the theory of group analysis: (1) Elias's discovery of the simultaneous-interdependent process of ‘Individualization and Socialization’, and (2) Foulkes's innovative conception of the ‘mind as a multi-personal phenomenon’. This analysis forms the main argument of this paper – that the theory of group analysis ‘takes interrelational individuals (in the plural) seriously’, not the reified concept of ‘The Individual’ nor the abstract concept of ‘The Group’. It is proposed that Foulkes's conception of the individual's mind ‘as a multi-personal phenomenon’ is compatible, albeit, preceded Mitchell's ‘relational’ conception of ‘multiple selves

Argument (complex analysis · Epistemology · Group (periodic table · Group analysis · Linguistics · Phenomenon · Plural · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sociology and Norbert Elias · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory