Koinonia: From Hate, through Dialogue, to Culture in the Larger Group

Koinonia: From Hate, through Dialogue, to Culture in the Larger Group
ISBN-10
0429915462
ISBN-13
9780429915468
Category
Psychology
Pages
290
Language
English
Published
2018-04-24
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Patrick De Mare

Description

A study of the larger group, focusing on the processes and dynamics whereby the group micro-culture emerges. As the initial frustrations of the group find expression in hate, this is transformed through dialogue to what the Greeks knew as 'koinonia', or the state of impersonal fellowship. Essentially, Koinonia concerns itself with an operational approach to dialogue, culture and the human mind through the medium of a larger group context, and adopts a direction similar in many ways to the group-analytic method of S.H. Foulkes. In attempting to link the most intimate aspect of individual beings naturally and spontaneously in the socio-cultural setting of the larger group, by the very nature of its size, offers a structure or medium for linking inner world with cultural context, and is thus able to establish a unique dimension-that of the micro-culture.

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