1st Edition

The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups and Societies Mainly Theory

Edited By Earl Hopper, Haim Weinberg Copyright 2011
    400 Pages
    by Routledge

    400 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Foreword , Introduction , The Origins of the Concept of the Social Unconscious , The concept of the social unconscious in the work of S. H. Foulkes , The concept of the co-unconscious in Moreno’s psychodrama , Enrique Pichon-Rivière: the social unconscious in the Latin-American tradition of group analysis , The Organismic and Neurobiological Perspective , Introduction , Mirror neurons, sociality, and the species homo sapiens , The group mind, systems-centred functional subgrouping, and interpersonal neurobiology , The Relational and Interpersonal Perspective , Introduction , Working intersubjectively: what does it mean for theory and therapy? , The lost roots of the theory of group analysis: “interrelational individuals” or “persons” , The Mind of the Social System , Introduction , The false we/the false collective self: a dynamic part of the social unconscious , Manifestations of psychic retreats in social systems , The Matrix of the Social System , Introduction , The social unconscious and ideology: in clinical theory and practice , The foundation matrix and the social unconscious , The Numinous and the Unknown , Introduction , The social unconscious and the collective unconscious: the Jungian perspective , Intuiting knowledge from the social unconscious with special reference to social dreaming

    Biography

    Earl Hopper