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As new ethical questions emerge within psychoanalysis, this paper creatively considers the question: What is ethical care at the group or social level? Utilizing the framework of social ethics, Institutionalized Psychoanalysis and the “social” are taken up in two ways that are distinct but imbricated. First, Institutional Psychoanalysis is considered as an entity, force, and participant in the larger social matrix and related historical, political, and economic discourses. This exploration highlights the potential impacts of institutionalization on psychoanalysis from multiple angles – including philosophical, clinical, personal, and social. Unminded links to neoliberalism are questioned, and the psychoanalytic goods of “internal freedom” and “psychic growth” are problematized. The author introduces the idea of “trickle-down psychic economies.” Second, the group life of Institutional Psychoanalysis is then taken up directly by exploring the unminded group that we make and repeatedly remake despite innovations and evolving commitments. Clinical material surfaces issues of whiteness, racial enactments, racialized reverie, unconscious group process, systemic and structural violence, and the necessity of “marking.” The author introduces the idea of “psychoanalytic habitus.” This paper is a passionate plea to Institutional Psychoanalysis (and those that comprise it) to take up a new kind of ethics and implication – together.