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In recent years, regulation groups (including practice analysis) have been marked by the omnipresence of an unleashed negative charge, which, if it cannot be contained by the institutions’ internal mechanisms (which are most often in a state of decay that confines their operation to a dimension of the order of “survival”), threatens to turn against the professionals. The group, where it still exists, becomes the privileged receptacle of this movement, in the absence of a possible address to vertical positions. In practice analysis sessions, the group sometimes defends itself against this outpouring of negativity by turning it on the facilitator, in a way that echoes the fantasy of “killing a facilitator”. It is then the facilitator, as if at the end of a chain of reversals and projections, who can survive or not to survive the destructiveness.