https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2013.403
The dream, the group and the group Self
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The article considers the use and meaning of dreams in a psychoanalytic group experience. The interpretative framework of group dynamics proposed by Renè Kaës and the reading of dreams in a non-personal sense elaborated by Carl Gustav Jung and Silvia Montefoschi are the references used by the author to understand the meaning and possibilities offered by the use of dreams in a group context. The thesis proposed is that the collective reading (transpersonal and non-personal) of the participants' unconscious dream experience facilitates the constitution of a "group Self", as the organizing centre of the shared group experience, which remains as a creative possibility in the individual psyche even at the end of the group experience. The author examines several dreams elaborated by the group to substantiate this hypothesis.
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