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Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, many professionals working from home have had recourse to videoconferences using VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) to ensure the continuity of team meetings and to maintain group ties. But what about the permanence of the group transference tie? Does this new practice mask, accentuate or weaken transference ties? We have noticed the emergence of mechanisms of avoidance and dissociation in institutional team meetings or analyses of professional practices at the origin of the appearance of aggressive impulses that would previously have been discharged in the reality of physical confrontation. Each subject belonging to dysfunctional teams feels protected by the mediating and stimulus barrier function which the screen becomes to the detriment of regulation by the group. Drive defusion attacks transference links, corrupts institutional relations, and seems to dissolve group unity if this practice becomes systematic.