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Mary<br />

Sorry I’m late.<br />

I nearly stood on those as I swung round<br />

the corner (referring to fresh eggs brought<br />

by Paula).<br />

Paula<br />

From my hens. They’re from my girls.<br />

Mary<br />

From your girls.<br />

Table 5.2<br />

A fragment of interaction from Page 147<br />

Chapter Five - A Beginning – Page 173<br />

The meaning of one person’s representation of herself as a mother can be seen in a<br />

range of ways. In this section and in what follows, this plurality of possible meanings<br />

can be reached by the taking of an associative and allusory stance, informed by an<br />

appreciation of metonymy and of bi-logical depth. These meanings include that this is<br />

an attempt to soothe her own anxiety by assuming competence; that she is challenging<br />

the tutors as caretakers, particularly given the impending end of the course (signalled by<br />

the final mid-semester break, which will follow immediately after this session); and that<br />

disavowal of the tutors and the establishment that they represent may be a way of<br />

beginning to attempt to deal with the losses that are about to befall the individual<br />

members of the group and the group as a whole. These particular meanings are<br />

expressions of a group-analytic perspective on the interaction in the group and its<br />

relationship to the world of the group.

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