This is the fourth paper in a series proposing a psychoanalytic concept of community. The third paper of the series centered on the unconscious psychological tasks involved in creating and sustaining a community and in it achieving its reason for existence; tasks such as the formation of bonds, identity and boundary. In this fourth paper we propose that the effectiveness with which a community can carry out these tasks determines how well that community is able to function. The successful performance of the tasks is dependent on: (1) a community's capacity for psychic function, that is, its capacity to process internal tension and conflict, and both everyday and adverse experiences; (2) the effectiveness of its social defense against anxiety; and (3) its adaptability to changes and challenges in its environment.

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迈向社区的精神分析概念（IV）：运作良好的社区

这是提出社区精神分析概念的系列文章中的第四篇。该系列的第三篇论文集中于创建和维持社区以及实现其存在理由所涉及的无意识心理任务；任务，如债券的形成、身份和边界。在第四篇论文中，我们建议社区执行这些任务的有效性决定了该社区能够运作的程度。任务的成功执行取决于： (1) 社区的心理功能能力，即处理内部紧张和冲突以及日常和不利经历的能力；(2) 其针对焦虑的社会防御的有效性；(3) 对环境变化和挑战的适应性。