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This article sets out to show how, and on what conditions, a research group can constitute a tool for exploring psychic life and a space favourable to the emergence and analysis of interlocking phenomena. It is based on the experience of a group conducted during several years by Ophelia Avron and Edith Lecourt in the context of the sfppg. After clarifying the methodological approach, two clinical moments make it possible to distinguish different movements at play in these phenomena and to examine both the underlying group processes and the methodology used to gain access to them.