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Jean Claude Rouchy’s career bears witness to the history of the movement of group psychoanalysis. Rouchy drew on his institutional and associative group experiences to analyse group processes, and in particular, group transference. The space created in groups, whether therapeutic or training groups, allows for analytic work to be done on two types of transference, already identified by Freud: new editions which repeat in the group a scenario “in the same way” without being aware of enacting the same thing, and revised editions where there is some distance between what is repeated “identically”, but not in exactly the same way. In group processes it is not only the relationships to parents or a series of dual relationships that are displaced in the transference, but also primary ties and internal groups in relation to the original family group.