Group-Analytic Contexts, Issue 81, September 2018
Newsletter of the Group Analytic Society International
Newsletter of the Group Analytic Society International
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Newsletter – Autumn <strong>2018</strong> 39<br />
What’s going on Renoula, you’re not eating again? And you little<br />
Tiger, be lively, well done!<br />
Refugee: I had a dog in my distant hometown. I wonder if it<br />
remembers me. Will it be alive?<br />
REPORTER: [HE LOOKS BACK ON THE PAST, THE<br />
HOMELAND, THE PREVIOUS CAREFREE LIFE, THE<br />
PREVIOUS ROMANCES]<br />
NARRATOR: Plutarch's mother suddenly dies; her heart was torn<br />
from sorrow. During the funeral, he stands far away, not approaching<br />
anyone.<br />
Plutarch: She died a long time ago! I killed her.<br />
Refugee: These bones that I brought with me, of my ancestors, these<br />
are my home. (He embraces the backpack with the bones)<br />
REPORTER: [THE ONLY THING HE MANAGED TO<br />
SALVAGE FROM DESTRUCTION WAS HIS ANCESTORS’<br />
SACRED BONES, A SYMBOL OF HIS IDENTITY AS A PERSON<br />
AND ALSO AS A MEMBER OF A WIDER NATIONAL GROUP]<br />
NARRATOR: Plutarch punches his demented father. He threatens<br />
and extorts the woman who looks after him.<br />
Plutarch: You don’t know what's happening to you, you're useless<br />
and stupid, a useless corpse!<br />
Refugee: Nobody understands me here, which language should I<br />
speak?<br />
REPORTER: [HE DOES NOT KNOW THE LANGUAGE, HE<br />
CAN’T COMMUNICATE - AN INTERPRETER IS BROUGHT<br />
FOR HIM - YET AGAIN HE CAN’T COMMUNICATE BECAUSE<br />
THE TRADITIONS ARE DIFFERENT, THE ETHICS, THE<br />
CUSTOMS, THE WAY HE SEES THE WORLD]<br />
NARRATOR: Plutarch's father dies. He doesn’t go to the funeral. He<br />
lives ‘imprisoned’ in the cottage. He sleeps during the day and at night<br />
he is surfing on the Internet.
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