Grup d´Analisi Barcelona

Knitting networks between individuals and groups

The concept of net is a cornerstone of groupanalysis and also of the origin of Internet. In groupanalysis the net is a network, this is to say a work of communication in a net. The authors and co-authors —present, past and future— of this Blog are nodal points of a net or transpersonal matrix of communication that inevitably get into knots with each other and support the net itself. Depending on the question posed, one or another nodal point lights up, a network that characterises a particular group at a given moment. Like in the neuronal net, the social and professional nets show the relations between the different individuals and group. The nets change and develop, and we can think that the history is an interpretation which interweaves the biographical threads of the individuals with the social threads of the political, cultural and professional contexts throughout time.

This section presents the pioneering work of Juan Campos in his effort to analyse the professional group associations in relation to their origin and course or their founders. His trajectory in their midst, accompanied by others, has made it possible to elaborate some histories of the development of professional institutions; this is to say of the intra-group networks.

Also included in this section are the attempts of investigating and better understanding the relations between groups whose networks distinguish themselves as far as origin and course is concerned but whose relationships are indispensable for a multi- and transdisciplinary approach, that is to say, how intergroup networks are established.

Finally, trying to illustrate how a trajectory in groupanalysis is being woven between individuals and groups, we share our own histories. In 2008 there arose the proposal that the then four members of Grup d’Anàlisi describe their own course of development, something that was not going to be easy, since although the themes and the milestones could be common to all the members of the group —and to others also— the dates and the concrete facts distant us from the shared and inserted us in the particular course taken. The creative solution to a particular knot, where the individual and the group articulate, becomes concrete  in the structure of the Blog of Gd’AB, as well as in the attempt to find nodal points and subjects in which everyone can identify our course of development in and with the groups. That is to say, the milestones and networks between individuals and group.

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Intra-group networks

Intergroup networks

Networks between individuals and group