Group analytic work serves as a prism through which the aesthetic dimensions of political life can be differentiated and appreciated as forming a complex creative human activity akin to art, science and psychoanalysis itself. The perspective on the unconscious processes permits a fuller view of what politics is about, as a medium for creating a world of relationships. The increasing experience of transcultural small and large group settings reflects and focuses this development. Group analytic process allows us glimpses of the inherent beauty and the concomitant violence of political activity as the expression of a basic `aesthetic conflict' (D. Meltzer).
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