INTRODUCTION

The psychology of community represents an important crossroad of different disciplines today, from the psychology to the sociology, from the ethnology to the psychoanalysis, from the mythology to the sciences of the communication. By the constant and deeper evolution of the scientific knowledge and the social progress, the community psychology represents a field of research that is in perennial evolution. A theme that deals with the possible connections between cultural matrixes and transformations of the community it is very fascinating but certainly not easy. Undoubtedly the epistemology of the complexity represents an essential tool to try to understand, under different optics, the innumerable problem offered by the human becoming. These pages constitute recognition of routes more than an ordering of results relatively to a subject that, also including thematic partially not new, it is extremely actual. This actuality doesn't derive only from the changes that they happen, with the History, in the different cultural contexts and, with the technical-scientific progress, in the way of studying them, but also from the rediscovery of the community value, with particular reference to the “little local community”, what social protection against the loss of the matrixes, both bastion of the social change. The present work connects different vertexes of study from that anthropological, in the phylogenetic and ontogenetic dimensions of the Self, to that grouppal, what place-space for the affiliation and the mythpoiesis, to that social-collective, what elective context for the sustainable development.