ABSTRACT
This chapter explores moving image experience as an example of a shared social framework of collective memory and argues that to work as a potential type of group dreaming that seeks to unify the psychic life of the group with its lived, bodily experience. It explores the Bionian model of dreaming to the much broader context of group experience and collective memory. There are two main reasons for this; first is that moving images, like dreaming, however much they are regarded as immersive and individual experiences, are also group experiences and part of wider socio-cultural and socio-political structures. Second is the claim that dreaming as group experience manifests via social frameworks of memory. The chapter considers group experience and collective memory through the framework of dreaming as a common link that exists between Wilfred Bion and Maurice Halbwachs, as both positions dreaming as a central structure for collective aesthetic experience, albeit in with different disciplinary and theoretical intentions.
