Social Dreaming in the 21st Century : The World We Are Losing

ISBN-13: 9781855755543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 211 str.

John Clare; Ali Zarbafi

Opis

The world and its people are in a precarious situation. After the loss and carnage of the twentieth century there is prevailing mood of uncertainty and paranoia, yet at the same time a denial of tragedy, a salvation fantasy, an illusion that we will be saved. Since dreams often reflect the social environment of the dreamer, they thus prove to be a useful tool when examining the group dynamics.

Social Dreaming is the method of working with dreams that are shared and associated within a gathering of people, coming together for this purpose. Its focus is on the dream and not the dreamer. How can this method help with today's zeitgeist? Can it be used to not only help soothe individual souls but to also come up with new ways of going forward? This work is a collaboration between two different analytic traditions, produced in the spirit of shared ideas, acknowledged differences and a mutual belief in free association and the primacy of the dream. It will help explain the ricochet of dreams and associations, recalled and echoed in the spontaneity of the dream-telling.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Introduction -- Social dreaming and the self -- The night train of social dreams -- Dreaming after 9/11 -- Sweet honey in the rock -- The end of the dance: Dreams at a literary festival -- We are all slaves to babble—land: A mass dreaming experiment -- Dreaming in the inner city -- Too late! Social dreaming in the Haute Languedoc -- Conclusion

O autorze

John Clare, Ali Zarbafi