ABSTRACT

Human fantasy is always ready to get its own back on reality and above all on the new, overcoming or violating the limits of reality and rationality while also reviving latent and profound imaginative dimensions. A fantasy of a virtual space without time that can, in fact, be found in many literary works and in the history of man's thought. On the condition that the level of regression and of group illusion that D. Anzieu talks of and/or the collective mental level tending towards rigid repetition that W. R. Bion talks of are successfully overcome. Social dreaming, too, is, in fact, a psychoanalytic technique of group management, which also originated in the Tavistock Clinic. Leading and alternating experiential groups and social dreaming groups in Second Life, in this immersive type of three-dimensional world, which graphically appears so real to psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts eyes and mind, means gradually triggering in participants a process of group working through.