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The author notes the association made by Freud between a certain form of hatred and groups, based on the notion of the “narcissism of small differences”. She follows this line of thinking in order to attempt a metapsychological articulation based on the experience of an analytical group with children and examples from literature. The nature of social ties makes it possible to identify the specificity of an antioedipal fraternal dimension. It opens out onto a rereading of the myth of the horde in which the fraternal union takes on the value of an auto time or a double collective reversal, constituting a group ego, negating the father. Freud sees it as a “fatherless” period contemporaneous with a topographical redistribution, placing the difference of generations at the heart of the first good/bad, inside/outside, ego/not-ego splits. The primitive figure of the Nebenmensch, at once “the only helping power”, “the first object of satisfaction”, and “the first hostile object”, is decondensed. The parent assumes the power or excess conveying the ideal, and frees the fraternal alter ego, which is not very different narcissistically, from an excess of hostile impulses, reinforcing its reflecting function of the nascent ego rather than making itself its captor.