ABSTRACT
The social unconscious is vital for understanding persons and their groupings, ranging from families to societies, committees to organisations, and from small to median to large therapeutic groups, and essential for comprehensive clinical work. This series of volumes of contributions from an international network of psychoanalysts, analytical psychologists, group analysts and psychodramatists draw on the classical ideas of Freud, Klein and Jung, Bion, Foulkes and Moreno, and on contemporary relational perspectives, self-psychology and neuroscience. Volume 1 is concerned mainly with the theory of the social unconscious. It is focused on topics such as location, sociality, the social brain, identity, ideology, the foundation matrix, social psychological retreats, false collective self-objects, the collective unconscious and its archetypes and social dreaming.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|67 pages
The Origins of the Concept of the Social Unconscious
part II|55 pages
The Organismic and Neurobiological Perspective
part III|51 pages
The Relational and Interpersonal Perspective
part IV|56 pages
The Mind of the Social System
chapter Eight|22 pages
The false we/the false collective self: a dynamic part of the social unconscious
part V|53 pages
The Matrix of the Social System
part VI|50 pages
The Numinous and the Unknown