Concept of transformer—Tesla in the social unconscious of Serbs and music of the universe in tripartite matrices

Abstract

We explore the transformation potential of certain significant figures from the social unconscious in social and group-analytic matrices using the example of Nikola Tesla, Serbian American scientist. In moments of despair the group ‘finds’ the transformer resource for regaining hope and vitality—from incohesion to cohesion. Transformative meaning-making may occur through touching the infinite/numinous as a domain of the social unconscious, explored by Jungian group analysts¹. With Serbian ‘zvezdobrojci’²figures, as Tesla, this often happens by a group’s attuning to universal musical harmony as general qualities of humanity in equivalence processes of tripartite matrices. Illustrations from groups are included.