COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; Introduction; PART I HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; CHAPTER ONE Instinct and psychoanalysis; CHAPTER TWO Instinct and group analysis; PART II THE MEANING OF NOS; CHAPTER THREE Nos and the social unconscious; CHAPTER FOUR A possible biological metatheory; CHAPTER FIVE Will and nos; CHAPTER SIX Nos in group analysis; CHAPTER SEVEN Phenomenology of the self; PART III NOTES; CHAPTER EIGHT Ferenczi's three main principles; CHAPTER NINE Attempt at defining nos; REFERENCES; INDEX
Summary
Group analysis developed out of psychoanalysis, but kept the fundamental principles of the latter. The classical structural theory of the personality comprises the id that is an ego-centred instinct, the ego that develops out of it, and the superego representing the influences of our guardians. It presents us with a lonely person, not a very useful image for group analysis. The recently discovered social instinct enables us to complete the structural theory, with an instinct based social function we call "nos", Latin for "we". The new human paradigm gives us the social person. We are together