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Drawing on clinical examples and theoretical concepts related to group functioning, the author describes the “transpersonal psychic field” of patients analysed individually during the pandemic, as a group that took shape in his mind. Thus, a series of elements that emerged during these individual analyses (ideations, thoughts, behaviours, ties, dreams) are presented here from the point of view of group functioning and of the (unconscious) ties that are created in the group. These elements are considered as a product of the interaction, in a common field, between the individual patients, the analyst, and their social ties with the field that they have created, which is related to the pandemic and the lockdown. The “group” process develops in different stages and includes all the patients seen individually: the new ones, the old ones who came back – in particular those that had been ill – in addition to the patients I was already treating. The process coincides with individual needs for connection, but also for differentiation. It is shared and subject to the fluctuations of urgency; but it is also conditioned to remain relatively independent or unaffected by the exceptional character of the common social condition.