Personal Response to Foulkes Lecture and Study Day

This important event of GASI brought me to a poetic experience, listening to an artistic way of talking about language and communication in group-analysis.

As underlined, the past 300 years of Western history neglected the need of human involvement in groups. Foulkes psychotherapy wasn’t about the symptoms but about the alienation, the lack of expression and interaction with language.The stories narrated around the fire by our wiser ancestors connected them to the past and helped to imagine a hopeful future.

The Korean-German philosopher Byung-Chul Han wrote in his book “The crisis of narration” that Homo Sapiens has degenerated into Phono Sapiens, so the power operates more effectively when delegates individuals. The crisis of narration transformed storytelling to storyselling, where is missed and lost our individuality, our humanity, our ability to tell narratives rather than our performances and efficiencies.

I was touched by this Lecture and by the Responses, that I felt resonate as

….MUSIC FOR  A  WHILE….

….Shall all your cares beguile….

Thank you very much!