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Bill
Do you want to?
Judi
No.
(The transcript is passed around. All read
transcripts silently for 10 minutes
approximately.)
Judi
Okay, how are people going?
Right, just another couple of minutes.
(pause)
Okay? So.
Well, let’s do our usual checklist. Do we
… do you think it’s a man or a woman?
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Chapter Five - A Beginning – Page 162
Tension. We’re just acting out (like at the
beginning of the extract.
Reading through my notes on Session 10, I
became aware (staring me in the face, if I
care to look) that I go on about Peter
Reder’s work after the challenge. I wonder
if I am a bit blown away by Paula’s
openness, and the difficulty of responding
to what others then bring forward,
including the presenter who is then late. In
responses to her account of her lateness
(not an apology), one member (Mary) says
that it’s lucky that Frances wasn’t blocked
in by five cars, which I read now as a form
of hateful wish. The discussion gets to the
lack of safety of the group, and the two
members who departed. Now I can read
this as an attack on Judi and myself. (Here
I am recognising another transference, this
time of the relationship from the end of the
last year between the group then and the
two people who left the group at
Christmas, to the relationship between the
group here now and the tutors, who are
representatives of the caretakers who left at
Christmas). We are, I think, caught in a
bind: for myself, I can feel angry at
Frances for her apparently arrogant
lateness, but the group seem to present as
so fragile that it feels to me that it is
impossible to confront her or them. On one
level, we do need to get on with work. On