ABSTRACT
With both aspects of container and contained present—the organization as container, and contained; and dreams as container and contained— there is a dynamic quality to the relationship between organization and dream, rather than the static, box like notion, the organization as a container for dreams. There are different settings that bring dreams about particular polarities to the forefront of consciousness, and indeed probably stimulate these dreams. One of these settings is psychoanalysis and another is the Social Dreaming Matrix. Freud demonstrated that dreams have a personal meaning, and that to associate to dreams, and interpret them, could lead to insight for the patient. The step to recognizing the validity of organizational dreaming feels like giving organizations their unconscious back. Social Dreaming would seem to be the right words when describing a Matrix of people unconnected except through the wish to share dreams, or the dreams of a society, as Beradt collected, or when it is used generically.
