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Chapter Six – Part of a Session – Page 205<br />

A table summarising the description, analysis and interpretation of data in this chapter is<br />

on the next page. As noted in the table, the predominant characteristic of the<br />

unconscious in this session is seen as symbolisation. Whilst some difficulty is<br />

experienced in representing experience in words, the frustration of one member of the<br />

group comes to stand for (and hence, to symbolise) the frustration of many others.<br />

My aim in relation to the methodological question of the thesis (how can a learning<br />

group be investigated?), has been to conduct an exploration of a set of phenomena,<br />

extracting a set of themes by an impressionistic process, and then examining and<br />

transforming the material that can be generated from those themes. Substantively, I have<br />

offered a demonstration of the products of this process contributing to an understanding<br />

of moments of difficulty in the process of teaching and learning. This particular moment<br />

involves a sudden shift of mood, and I have shown how this approach to research can<br />

illuminate the personal and group elements of such experiences in this type of learning.<br />

I have also argued that the predominant characteristic of the unconscious in this session<br />

is symbolisation.<br />

Another exploration follows in Chapter Seven.

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