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Scenodrama, as a mediation group, helps to contain instinctual drive impulses. It accelerates the processes of transformation and of intra- and interpsychic mediation. Acting as a cultural metaframework which supports the processes of psychic structuring by introducing the order of difference, language, and nomination, it facilitates the elaboration of the cultural subject. Our remarks are illustrated by three clinical vignettes which make the work of elaboration carried out during the sessions, and afterwards by the therapists, more intelligible. In order to understand the emerging transformations in the group, the therapists link up the concepts of Freudian metapsychology with group analytic concepts which open out onto a metapsychology of the 3rd type. As a result, they are led to think about the formations of the unconscious which are coordinated in different psychic spaces.