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The development of the concept of the Tripartite Matrix: A response to ‘Four modalities of the experience of others in groups’ by Victor Schermer

In his idiosyncratic contribution to our thinking about persons, relationships, and social entities, Victor Schermer (2018), a former Foulkes Lecturer and a well-known contributor to the literature in group analysis and psychoanalytical group therapy in the United States and in England, abstracts from the magma four modalities of the experience of others in groups: mind, body, gaze, and face. Schermer provides many examples of these processes and cites a range of sources of his ideas, which has an integrative quality. By implication, he argues that the processes that characterize these four modalities are not only expressed through the species and through the organism, but they also originate in them, both ‘in-the-beginning’ and for all time. A species consideration would be the relationship between the thumb and the fingers, the average size and structure of the brain, the five senses and their interrelationships, and so on. An individual organismic consideration would be the stage of the life cycle, age, sex, and so on of a particular individual. In group analysis, the species underpins the foundation matrix (in virtually the same way that in any society the sub-structure underpins the super-structure, at least according to classical Marxist theory). In fact, this is what Foulkes contained in his very broad, ambiguous notion of the ‘primordial’, which was hardly overlooked by Elias and many other sociologists and anthropologists of their day. The personal matrix, which is so important in clinical and applied work, recognizes 763833 GAQ0010.1177/0533316418763833Group AnalysisHopper: Response to Schermer research-article2018