Infinite Possibilities of Social Dreaming

ISBN-13: 9781855754935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 194 str.

W. Gordon Lawrence

Opis

Social Dreaming was discovered in the early 1980s at the Tavistock Institute in London. Its focus is on the dream and not the dreamer. It is done with a set of people who come together to share their dreams. This goes against the accepted belief, even dogma, that the study of dreaming can only be pursued in a one-to-one relationship, where one of the participants is a trained psychoanalyst.

The chapters in this book on Social Dreaming indicate the endless possibilities of free association and amplification in social dreaming. Although each writer has conveyed this, there still exist in their texts more detailed connotations and possible meanings of particular dreams. In a sense, their chapters are only beginnings for the reader to expand, as none is in any sense a complete, final version of the potential meanings of dreams in a particular Social Dreaming Matrix.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Infinite possibilities of Social Dreaming -- Social Dreaming with social democrats in Austria -- The dreaming soldier -- Life in Israel 1988–2004: associations, thoughts, and reflections on Social Dreaming -- Social Dreaming and the birth of South Africa's democracy -- "Vous êtes embarqué" (B. Pascal, Pensées): Social Dreaming with a group of political refugees -- Icons of the Social Dreaming Matrix: three experiences at the University of L'Aquila -- Shedding light on organizational shadows -- Social Dreaming at the Jung Congress -- "You must not be dreaming": how social dreaming may help us wake up -- "Don't explain, just go": the creative process and Social Dreaming, Hay-on-Wye Festival, May 2003 -- The organization as a Container for dreams -- Dream Reflection Group -- Creative Role Synthesis -- The sphinx looks at the individual: Creative Role Synthesis

O autorze

W. Gordon Lawrence