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Earl Hopper PhD Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification in the Unconscious “Life” of Social Systems

In the context of a Foulkesian group analytical perspective, I will argue that processes of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification constitute a Bionian fourth basic assumption in the unconscious “life” of human social systems. As a consequence of failed dependency, which is the essence of traumatic experience, Incohesion is especially prevalent in larger groups, who tend to “regress”, and, therefore, tend unconsciously to enact the dynamics of their contextual social systems, including processes from all the cells/spaces of an extended time/space paradigm. It is important to think in terms of the tripartite matrix and dynamic open systems, which are always “nested”. Incohesive social systems are likely to be “led” or more precisely “followed” by people with certain kinds of perverse and borderline narcissistic disorders. Fundamentalism and scapegoating are the two main pillars of massification. Thus, through Incohesion, trauma is likely to beget trauma. In the discussion of my presentation, participants may wish to consider examples of these processes in various traumatised societies and traumatised organisations. Earl Hopper, Ph.D is a psychoanalyst, group analyst and organisational consultant in private practice in London. He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, an Honorary Member of the Institute of Group Analysis, an Honorary Member of the Group Analytic Society International, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. A former President of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP). He is the author and editor of many books and articles in psychoanalysis, sociology and group analysis, and the Editor of The New International Library of Group Analysis for Routledge. Publications: The following publications show how I have developed and clarified my argument over the course of forty years, often changing my emphasis and formulations, mainly in response to the questions and comments of students and colleagues. Hopper, E. (1989). Psychotic anxieties and society: fission (fragmentation)/fusion and aggregation/massification. For the Royal College of Psychiatry, Cambridge. Hopper, E. (2003). Traumatic Experience in the Unconscious Life of Groups: The Fourth Basic Assumption: Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I:A/M. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Hopper, E. (Ed.) (2012). Trauma and Organisations. London: Karnac. Hopper, E. (2023). “Notes” on the theory of the fourth basic assumption in the unconscious life of groups and group-like social systems: Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I:A/M. In C. Penna From Crowds to Dynamics of Large Groups: Historical, Theoretical and Practical Considerations. London: Routledge. pp. 176-208. Hopper, E. (Ed.) (2024). Introduction. In The Tripartite Matrix in the Developing Theory and Expanding Practice of Group Analysis: The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups and Societies: Volume 4. London: Routledge. pp 1-16. Hopper, E. (Ed.) (2024). The tripartite matrix in Foulkesian Group Analysis. In The Tripartite Matrix in the Developing Theory and Expanding Practice of Group Analysis: The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups and Societies: Volume 4. London: Routledge. pp. 35-43. Hopper, E. (2024). Intolerance and Processes of Fundamentalism in the Context of the Basic Assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification. In A. Berman & G. Ofer (Eds.) Tolerance – A Concept in Crisis: Psychoanalytic, Group Analytic and Socio-cultural Perspectives. London: Routledge. pp. 160-171. Hopper, E. (2025). The Social Unconscious, Trauma and Groups: A Constellation. In D. Finzi & J. Wolff-Bernstein (Eds.) Thoughts for the Times on Groups and Masses. Leuven Uni Press.