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The vignette earlier in this Chapter, of the elaboration of one tutor’s relationship with
the receptionist, can be seen as an example of the ways that dynamics may be
transferred from one setting to another, by projection and projective identification (see
Chapter Two Part One), and the way that the dynamics come to be represented in the
new domain.
Staff
Group
Students
Task Clinical
Figure 8.2 – Projection to-and-fro
in the Learning Group linked to
the Reference Locator
In relation to this last point, Bion’s notion of distorted projection in psychosis is
important (1962). Put simply, this is that projection in the non-psychotic personality is
often a direct process, whereas in a more psychotic personality, it as if the projected
material goes through a range of distortions in transit. Extending this notion to the group