Abstract
This article focuses on the relationship between group analysis and democracy with special reference to transference phenomena. Accordingly, Foulkes's concept of leadership and transference in groups is compared with Freud's analysis of mass formation, hypnosis and transference love, and the concept of transference further elucidated with particular reference to Laplanche's `General Theory of Seduction'. Finally, the group-analytic process and training is suggested as a training for citizenship, where group analysis and democracy are indissolubly linked.
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