- Engaging in flirtatious sex talk amongst pairs
- Identifying and villifying enemies
- Nominate and venerate a hero beyond critique
The next time you find yourself in a social group setting, take a moment to analyze what it is you're really talking about and see if it shows up in that very short list.
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By group interaction, you (Wilfred Bion, that is) must be limiting your meaning to conversational speech. Otherwise, counter examples are too easy. The most obvious I can think of is a group of performing musicians. There are no apparent pairs, unless you count musicians as one entity, the audience as the other. Villivying anyone only applies to ultra-modern atonal "music". The only candidates for veneration would seem to be a conductor, of which there may be none, and the composer. Veneration seems a stretch to me, but could, I suppose, be possible. Veneration beyond critique is going too far, since music is so subject to interpretation and individual expression.
It seems to me that Willie the Shrink has been thinking too much inside a very small box.
Anon, as ever
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