Dreaming the Social

ISBN-13: 9781032551050 / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str.

Ali Zarbafi

Opis

Dreaming the Social uses social dreaming as a tool to explore aspects of contemporary life and examine how we can reverse social fragmentation and large-scale trauma.

Recenzje

Praise for the first edition: 

"This is the book I have been waiting to read. I have yearned for a book that would examine contemporary culture through the imaginative critique of psychoanalysis. I did not want a theory-poem, or authorial brilliance. I yearned for the sort of book that I knew would teach me something and which I could recommend to others. The authors’ passion embraces the subject matter in ways that is more than inspiring and hopeful. It is such a relief to read!" - Christopher Bollas, author of The Freudian Moment, The Infinite Question and Evocative Object World  

“We have long thought of dreams as a repository of the most private and inaccessible regions of unconscious experience. In this important and original book, the motifs and mechanisms of the dreaming unconscious - helplessness, sexual desire, denial, the pleasures and perils of knowing - are mined instead for their rich and layered social meanings. With fascinating new chapters on Brexit, Covid and Ukraine, Clare and Zarbafi show us dreams as carriers of urgent messages from and to our precarious world.” – Josh Cohen, Psychoanalyst,  author and Professor of English at Goldsmiths College, University of London

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Foreword by W. Gordon Lawrence

Introduction

 

PART ONE

 

CHAPTER ONE

Social Dreaming and the Self

John Clare

 

CHAPTER TWO

Night Train of Social Dreams

Ali Zarbafi

 

 

PART TWO

 

CHAPTER THREE

Dreaming after 9/11

John Clare

 

CHAPTER FOUR

Sweet Honey in the Rock

John Clare

 

CHAPTER FIVE

The End of the Dance: dreams at a literary festival

John Clare

Addendum by Jane Storr

 

CHAPTER SIX

A Mass Dreaming Experiment

John Clare and Ali Zarbafi

 

CHAPTER SEVEN

Dreaming in the Inner City

John Clare and Ali Zarbafi

 

 

CHAPTER EIGHT

 Social Dreaming: a no goal method?

Ali Zarbafi

 

 

PART THREE

 

CHAPTER NINE

Where are we going?  The long group in Hay-on-Wye 2009-2023

John Clare

 

CHAPTER TEN

COVID: the invisible invasion

John Clare

 

CHAPTER ELEVEN

War in Europe

John Clare

 

CHAPTER TWELVE

Conclusion

John Clare and Ali Zarbafi

 

 

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

 

O autorze

John Clare is a retired psychoanalytic psychotherapist, who, after being a sociology lecturer at London University, worked as a therapist in the NHS and private practice. He is a founder member of the Multi-lingual Psychotherapy Centre. He has written on Samuel Beckett and Psychoanalysis and on ‘Dreams before 9/11.’ He is now an expressionist painter living in Wales, where he has been running a social dreaming matrix since 2009.

Ali Zarbafi is a Jungian Analyst and Clinical Supervisor. He is a member of the Society of Analytical Psychology and a founder member of the Multilingual Psychotherapy Centre. He worked in the NHS for 30 years and is now in private practice as well as supervising at various training institutes.