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Each year, ASTRAG (Association for Group Therapeutic and Social Work) organizes training in group-analysis over four weekends. This training is free and open to anyone interested in group dynamics. The group setting puts us in direct contact with our deep psychic contents. We believe that group analysis, with its feature of amplification of individual psycho-dynamics, is a valuable laboratory for promoting, in the field of so-called classical psychoanalysis, a very rich dialogue and reciprocal enrichment. This article is conceived as a “marauding trail” that intervenes—discreetly and without doing much damage—where the gems of analytical knowledge are concerned, in order to benefit from these and share them. We focus first on the first and second Freudian topics, passing through the Jungian vision of the unconscious to arrive at the synthesis proposed by Charles Baudouin, a Swiss psychoanalyst who lived and worked in Geneva. In the second stage, we approach Baudouin’s seven instances in light of Stocker’s Cone, with its three components: biological, social, and spiritual. The three levels that Baudouin borrows from Pascal— body, mind, heart—guide the development of the individual according to his/her psychological phylogenies. The third stage of our marauding path plunges us into the deep world of the collective unconscious, suggesting the group as an ideal tool to explore these deep layers and thus approach the world of archetypes. The final stage brings us to a slightly different vision of Baudouin’s septenary by following the different levels of the process of individuation.