Communication, while among the primary focuses of Foulkes’ theoretical elaborations, still remains more valued by advertisers than by group analysts. This paper is an attempt to ‘rediscover’ communication and link it to sexuality, on the basis of clinical material, extended over several years. The concept of emitted nodal points (enigmatic messages-in-a-bottle ) is proposed, within a context of actual personal and social realities.
BionW (1965) Transformations: Change from Learning to Growth. In: MawsonC (ed.) The Complete Works of D.R. Bion. London: Karnac.
3.
BionW (1966 [2014]) Catastrophic Change. In: MawsonC (ed.) The Complete Works of D.R. Bion. London: Karnac.
4.
BrombergPM (1996) Standing in the Spaces: The Multiplicity of Self and the Psychoanalytic Relationship. Contemporary Psychoanalysis32: 509–535.
5.
BreuerJFreudS (1893) On the Physical Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena: Preliminary Communication from Studies on Hysteria. S.E. 2.
6.
ButlerJ (2012) Parting Ways. NY: Columbia UP.
7.
EliasN (1939) The Civilizing Process. London: Blackwell, 1994.
8.
FerencziS (1949) Confusion of the Tongues Between the Adults and the Child—(The Language of Tenderness and of Passion). International Journal of Psychoanalysis30: 225–230.
9.
FonagyPTargetM (2007) Playing with Reality: IV. A Theory of External Reality Rooted in Intersubjectivity. International Journal of Psychoanalysis88: 917–937.
10.
FoulkesSH (1964) Therapeutic Group Analysis. London: Maresfield.
11.
FoulkesSH (1972 [1990]) Psychoanalysis and Group Analysis. London: Karnac.
12.
FreudS ([1895] 1950) Project for a Scientific Psychology. S.E. 1.
13.
FreudS (1897) Letter 69 Extracts from the Fliess Papers. S.E. 1.
14.
FreudS (1901) On Dreams. S.E. 5.
15.
FreudS (1912) Recommendations to Physicians Practicing Psycho Analysis. S.E. 12.
16.
FreudS (1919) The Uncanny. S.E. 17.
17.
FreudS (1923) The Ego and the Id. S.E. 19.
18.
FreudS (1937) Constructions in Analysis. S.E. 23.
19.
GfaellerGR (1993) ‘Figuration’. The Contribution of Norbert Elias to Group Analysis and the Contribution of Group Analysis to the Social Sciences. Group Analysis26: 341–356.
20.
GrünbaumA (1984) The Foundations of Psychoanalysis. A Philosophical Critique. Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press.
21.
HopperE (1982) Group Analysis: The Problem of Context. Group Analysis15: 136–157.
22.
HopperE (1991) Encapsulation as a Defence against the Fear ofAnnihilation. International Journal of Psychoanalysis72: 607–624.
23.
HopperE (2003) Traumatic Experiences in the Unconscious Life of Groups. The Fourth Basic Assumption: Incohesion: Aggregation/ Massification or (ba) I:A/M. London: Jessica Kingsley.
24.
HouseJ (2017) The Ongoing Rediscovery of Après-Coup as a Central Freudian Concept. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association65: 773–798.
25.
KarterudS (2011) Constructing and Mentalizing the Matrix. 35thFoulkes lecture. Group Analysis44: 357–373.
26.
LamnidisN (2025) Symbolization of the Primal Scene and Psychic Development. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 94: 245–275.
27.
LaplancheJ (1999) Essays on Otherness. London: Routledge.
28.
LevineHB (2023) A Metapsychology of the Unrepresented. Psychoanalytic Quarterly92: 11–25.
29.
LiECampbellCMidgleyNLuytenP (2023) Epistemic Trust: A Comprehensive Review of Empirical Insights and Implications for Developmental Psychopathology. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process, Outcome26: 704.
30.
LoewaldHW (1962) The Superego and the Ego-Ideal. International Journal of Psychoanalysis43: 264–268.
31.
MercierHSperberD (2017) The Enigma of Reason. London: Penguin.
32.
NitsunM (2006) The Group as an Object of Desire. Exploring Sexuality in Group Therapy. London: Routledge.
33.
OgdenT (1994) The Analytic Third. Working with Intersubjective Clinical Facts. International Journal of Psychoanalysis75: 3–19.
34.
OgdenT (2019) Ontological Psychoanalysis or ‘What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?’The Psychoanalytic Quarterly88: 661–684.
35.
OgdenT (2024) Rethinking the Concepts of the Unconscious and Analytic Time. International Journal of Psychoanalysis105: 279–291.
36.
Philosophy of Notation. In: The Essential Peirce, Volume I. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP.
37.
PinesM (1983) On Mirroring in Group Psychotherapy. Group7: 3–17.
38.
PotthoffP (2023) Group-Analytic Concepts in the Light of Intersubjective Psychoanalysis: Field/Matrix and Communication/ Transference. Paper presented in the 18th Symposium of Group Analysis, Belgrade.
39.
RippaBRippaBMossB (2013) Interpersonal Communication at the Internal Group Level. Group Analysis46: 415–425.
40.
RousillonR (2016) An Introduction to the Work of Primary Symbolization. International Journal of Psychoanalysis96: 583–594.
41.
Van RulerB (2018) Communication Theory: An Underrated Pillar on Which Strategic Communication Rests. International Journal of Strategic Communication4: 367–381.
