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The function of supervision is the analysis of counter-transference. But is the group-system adapted to a direct approach of what has to do with what is the most private, even most intimate in everyone? The clinical practice of groups of supervision has led the author to work out the counter-transference from its effects, that is to say from the effects the narrator produces on and inside the group. The author supposes that these effects cannot be dissociated from the nature and contents of the utterances, from the associative interdiscursivity and from their polyphony, as well as from what is put on stage and dramatizes itself. These effects are as many resonances and echoes of the counter-transference of the narrator, which declines itself and conjugates in the context of a group topics. It follows from this that the author conceives the analyst’s listening in this context, as an echo-logy.