Beyond Singularity: A Group Analytic Perspective on the Symptom and Transmission

BEYOND SINGULARITY Terence Larkin A GROUP ANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE SYMPTOM AND TRANSMISSION This paper will use aspects of group analytic thinking in an attempt to ‘diagnose’ the so called ‘symptom’ of psychoanalytic organisations. Speculative thoughts will be outlined concerning some possible causes of the ‘symptom’, its impact on the history of psychoanalysis and the obstacles it may pose for the transmission and survival of psychoanalytic theory and its therapeutic application....