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Analyzing the interaction in a group around anxiety, defense mechanisms, and fantasies, the group evolves through similar phases as in individual analyses. If it is handled properly the group will show the most primitive unconscious fantasies. The predominant anxieties in any group were caused by hostile impulses and restitution efforts to repair fantasied damage to the object. Therapeutic success involves relinquishing fantasy in favor of realistic adaptation and real satisfaction in object relations. The more the analyst is evaluated (latent idealization), the greater the therapeutic progress. The group went through a transference involving envy, competition, and psychosexual development. An attempt is made to work through seductive Oedipal fantasy and paranoid Oedipal rivalry.