Newsletter – Summer 2014 33

From the March 2014 Issue of Gramophone

Magazine....
David Zinman, the music director of Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra,
answered the question, “Can conducting be taught” in this way:
“You can point out to conductors where the disconnect is, what’s
causing it. It can be their own fears, their own psychoses. Or that
they don’t trust the musicians. Or that they don’t trust themselves. If
you can get them to think about it, that’s a step in the right direction.
There’s no one way of beating time and I don’t try to teach that at all.
If its not clear I say so – its important to give an up beat that really
means something..........And the conductor has to allow the orchestra
to listen to itself as well. You can’t control every factor and the less
you control the better it is.......As conductors get old, their movements
get less and less. Thats the truth – they’ve found a way to make it
go! They’ve found the way they expect the orchestra to play. The
expectation is so important”.

A Comparison Between The Art Of

Conducting In Group Analysis and The Art
Of Conducting An Orchestra1
Group Analysis can be considered the ultimate development in
psychoanalysis after Freud. It is based on the relationship between the
individual and the social unconscious, which interact and constantly
and dynamically influence each other reciprocally. It represents a real
Copernican revolution; the overturning of a view. While Psychoanalysis
considers the social context marginal, Group Analysis proceeds in
the opposite direction, placing the context in the centre rather than
excluding it.
Thus the social context enters the therapy room. The analysis and
working through of conflicts and unconscious individual problems goes
hand in hand with the analysis and working through of everything that is
shared at the level of the social unconscious.
Group Analysis is an analytic therapy practiced by the group as a
whole under the direction of the analyst conducting it. The group
engages in the analysis and translation of the latent unconscious meaning
of communications. The translation work leads to the maturation
of the group matrix, which in its turn generates individual change
(Pisani R. A., 2000).