ABSTRACT
This chapter offers the unconscious themes of a society in distress as the surface in the social dreaming matrix and presents an extensive version of the programme as it unfolded. It addresses the question of the foreshadowing power of the social dreaming matrix. The chapter discusses the "continuous social dreaming matrix" was part of a programme of eight monthly meetings. The programme, sponsored by the Israel Association for the Study of Group and Organizational Processes, was offered to participants who had previously participated in a group relations conference. The group met in Jerusalem at the Sigmund Freud Center of the Hebrew University. Each meeting consisted of three 75-minute segments. They are social dreaming matrix; lecture; and role analysis session. In a social dreaming matrix, as in individual work on dreams, associations are as important to the matrix as the dreams themselves, being the means to negotiate the unconscious meanings of the matrix.
