The group as emerging property

The conceptualization of the group in psychoanalysis has had a difficult life, the author starting from Freud has tried to highlight the assumptions of some theories to get to propose a personal reading through the use of some concepts of the epistemology of complexity. In particular, he maintains that the group is a self-organising system, a property emerging from the recursive circularity of the multiple interactions that take place between the member subjects; that it has its own organisation and its own domain of pertinence and possible perturbations. It has also tried to highlight the recursive circularity of interactions and the emergence of attractors that define the state and drift of the group. The existence of a congruence between the drift (development containing the history and traces of the interactions with the internal and external elements) of the individual members and that of the group-system, authorizes the reading of the group and the possibility of intervention starting from what emerges and/or from what expresses any of its components (holographic principle). These assumptions are used in the description of a clinical vignette.