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This article shares an internal and external perspective on a cybercultural experience, in an innovative training group, in the field of psychoanalysis. The place of the image and its effects are questioned in the intersubjective relationship. What are the possible psychic implications for each member of the group and the group as a whole in a videoconference setting? The subject of the “virtual” body is like a form of bodily presence-absence where the other, the group, is kept at a distance that is less likely to become intrusive and more subject to control and manipulation. So the play of a body and “@-body” takes place gradually. New communication technologies allow us to live emotions, whether shared or otherwise, remotely in group experiences of a new type, a new era. For research, it seems indispensable to explore these practices of networked analytic training space. In our hypermodern societies where social connections are changed, disturbed, and altered as scientific advances are made, group practitioners have to take into account this “e-group” clinical practice that opens onto “cyber”-psychoanalysis.