Implications and complications of working out with groups - managing differences. To include - to exclude - to live together

Abstract

This conference refers first to the expulsive society and its effects on the links and the subjectivity. It shows that groups reproduce the social exclusion, what is also favored by nowadays individualism and the logic of consume. But at the same time they have the option of become transitional spaces, which are inclusive. The clinical intervention framed in a relational perspective in psychoanalysis takes different conceptual and operational axis, like narcissism in its dimension of life and death, tenderness, in opposition to the relationship of domain, and the group configuration of the group with the features of the nets, that are delineated here. The conference then analyses some key characteristics of the modern though and underline the passage from the difference to diversity. To examine these conceptions can lead to the emergence of inclusive clinical practices. Finally, it presents some conditions that permit the processes of inclusion in the educational ambit.