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The example of semi-open long-term group therapy could be a model for clinical work carried out at the boundary between family therapy and group therapy, with the brother complex as the bridge between the two. The arrival of each new patient gives rise to foundational violence within the transference-countertransference field, having a regressive impact on the way people relate to each other within the group, with a distinctive clinical picture – the image of disappearance/death (?).In her analysis of a clinical sequence of psychoanalytic therapy with a group of adults, the author questions the transmission process, and the relations between the intergenerational transmission of the here-and-now and cross-generational transmission, between the brother complex and the father of the “primitive horde” (Freud) or the “archaic mother” (Klein).