This paper responds to Stavros Charalambides’ call for a “group turn” in psychoanalysis (this issue) by affirming the centrality of the social unconscious in training institutes, while also offering cautionary reflections. Institutes are living organisms whose unconscious life shapes both candidates and analysts. Yet when group processes are overstretched, boundaries collapse, producing intrusion, silencing, and institutional paralysis. Drawing on historical precedents, personal experiences, and earlier work on “dreaming institutes,” I argue that institutional vitality depends on the capacity for reverie, mourning, and symbolic transformation. The social unconscious can sustain creativity and growth only when bounded spaces preserve freedom of thought. Without such safeguards, institutes risk becoming “houses without doors”—overexposed, defensive, and unable to dream.