Resonance: No Music without Resonance- without Resonance no Group 1

Abstract

This article discusses the phenomenon of resonance defined by S.H. Foulkes as: `communication without any message being sent or received, an a-causal and transpersonal process at the primordial level in the psychic network of communication, the matrix'. By discussing clinical examples from a group-analytic therapy-group, I try to show how resonance unfolds as a-causal expression of meaning rather than causal interactions. This concept is used in accordance with Foulkes' suggestion, that Jung's concept of the `collective unconscious' was relevant to understand processes at the primordial level. It is defined as a psychoid field characterized by synchronicity signifying an a-causal connection by a shared meaning or sense between inner subjective (psychic) and outer objective phenomena. From analytical psychology the concept of the `interactive field' in relation to the concept of `quantum fields' in physics and their `non-locality' are brought into the discussion. Quantum fields express a deep interconnectedness and interdependence shown by `true instantaneous action-at-a-distance', and are thought to further the understanding of the process of resonance, important not only clinically as a therapeutic factor but to group formation as such.