Identification and Groups of Belonging

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Abstract
To move from the intrapsychic field of identification to the psychosocial field of identity it is necessary to refer to `groups of belonging', which create, within transitional space, the conditions for metabolizing psychic reality and the outside world, the differentiation of the ego and non-ego, the space within and the space without, narcissism and the cathexis of objects. Such a group thus constitutes the missing link enabling us to determine both the relationship of the singular subject with the collective entity (and vice versa) and their mutual involvement. The distinction between the primary (or natural) group of belonging and a secondary (or instituted) group of belonging makes it possible to account for their evolution across generations, and the effects of personal and social traumas on the structuring of the psyche.

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