How is the individual subject on the couch both a "plural" subject, whose unconscious is preserved and shaped within inter-subjective bonds, unconscious alliances, and shared psychic spaces with others? Can the unique experience gained by psychoanalysts who have worked within a group teach something about these processes and transformations to analysts who exclusively use the method of the couch? Do these new findings lead us to a careful reexamination of our perceptions of the subject's unconscious, desire, and disturbances? Do they enlighten us about the functioning of groups within institutions and, specifically, about the collective existence of psychoanalysts?

All of the above issues are the subject of René Kaës' new book, which proposes an intriguing clinical approach to the psychic reality that is created within groups.