January 1961
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A classic study which, by synthesizing the approaches of psychoanalysis and group dynamics, has added a new dimension to the understanding of group phenomena.
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... Faced with choosing objects of desire coated with ambivalence, betrayal, disdain, and pity, the colonized may become reinvigorated by a figure who activates fantasies of refusal and reversal of loss. Wilfred Bion theorized group dynamics to show that in the interplay between leader and group the latter creates the former (Bion 1961). In other words, a person is placed into the role of leader by a group's collective unconscious fears and wishes. ...
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January 1961