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The Role Played by the Prision Institution as Part of an Oedipal Representation of Members of an Analytic Group for Sex Offenders

Abstract:The first part of this article argues that a sex offender inmate begins to comprehend his relationship to the prison from his first sight of the facility and his admission, then through emotional attributes generated by this environment and its representation as a father figure. A mother figure (analytic group) is constantly present and is part of an oedipal-type triangular configuration. The second part of the article proposes that a state of apprehension links the inmate with the prison's representation as a parental figure. This is parallel to a child's postnatal experience of contact with the unknown and learning how to regulate his emotional responses when confronting new situations. The third part describes the offender's relationship to his analytic group and its conductor, followed by consideration of a group member's oedipal-type configurations and involvement with his analytic group, group conductor, and the prison establishment as primary object relationships. The author's interpretations and theoretical viewpoints stem from material from an analytic group conducted in a Type B prison in the United Kingdom.