Earl Hopper, PhD, is a Psychoanalyst, Group Analyst and Organizational Consultant in private practice in London. He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, an Honorary Member of the Institute of Group Analysis, an Honorary Member of the Group Analytic Society International, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. The Editor of the New International Library of Group Analysis, he is a renowned teacher, trainer and consultant in the United Kingdom and many other countries.

Acknowledgements

About the Editor and Contributors

Introduction - Earl Hopper

PART I
The tripartite matrix of social systems

1. The cornerstone, once more ¿ Dieter Nitzgen

2. The tripartite matrix in Foulkesian Group Analysis ¿ Earl Hopper

3. Improvised vocality of verbal communication in groups: A contribution to the conceptualization of the tripartite matrix in group analysis - Helga Felsberger

PART II
Personifications and the interpersonal matrix

4. Personification and polarization within the foundation matrix of Israel: a case example ¿ Yossi Triest

5. Nikola Tesla and the social unconscious of Serbs: the dance of science with poetry, and of the earthly with the heavenly ¿ Marina Mojovic and Jelica Satari¿

6. Sex, custom and madness: a case study of the personification of the tripartite matrix of South Africa by a South African psychiatrist ¿ Penelope Busetto

PART III
Personifications and clinical work

7. Transference, countertransference, and the social unconscious: the bastion in clinical figurations in tripartite matrices¿ Carla Penna

8. Recognizing codes of superiority in clinical work: social unconscious, racism, sexism, and other elements of intersectionality - Kavita Avula

9. The white mirror: face to face with racism in group analysis ¿ Anne Aiyegbusi

PART IV
Topics

SECTION A
Envy & Gender

10. "They envy us¿ ¿ privilege and power relations in the social unconscious - Avi Berman

11. Bigenderality, bisexuality, foundation matrix and the social unconscious - Gila Ofer

12. Fear of envy and dispossession: The Evil Eye - Leyla Navaro

SECTION B
Addiction

13. Addiction in Egypt in the context of its foundation matrix - Mona Rakhawy and Nabil Elkot

14. Dangerous desire: addiction, consumption and recovery - Martin Weegmann

SECTION C
Equivalence

15. The Brexit Referendum and the inability to mourn: equivalence in a large group ¿ Frances Griffiths

16. The manic defense of reconstruction and the inability to mourn in post-war Japan - Kai Ogimoto and Tomas Plaenkers

17. Social unconscious and group psychotherapy in Georgia - Revaz (Rezo) Korinteli

PART V
Working in the tripartite matrix

18. The Trilogy Matrix Event (TME): a setting for collective reflection on social system dynamics of the tripartite matrix - Richard Morgan-Jones