Rules of Group Analysis - Rules of Psychoanalysis. Similarities and Differences

The intersubjective turn puts a new definition of the relationship between psychoanalysis and group analysis on the agenda. The following article is a contribution to this redefinition. In view of the fact that psychoanalysis and group analysis together understand themselves as "talking cures", it seems obvious to focus the investigation necessary for this redefinition on the similarities and differences between psychoanalytic and group-analytic speech. Key categories from the philosophy of ordinary language such as language game (Wittgenstein) and speech act (Austin) prove to be helpful in this context. 'the special nature of analytic speech, which is supposed to open up access to the unconscious, is mainly determined by the basic rule and its different setting-specific characteristics, by the free association and its equivalent in group setting, the free-flowing discussion. The relationship between the own word and the alien word turns out to be the primary criterion which distinguish the two varants of the basic rule. Finally, the article raises the question of which subject-theoretical consequences arise from the special importance of the alien word in group-analytic speech.