The extended unconscious group field and metabolization of pandemic experience: dreaming together to keep cohesion alive
Introduction: Working with dreams in groups allows understanding of unconscious phenomena that characterize it as unity and totality. The dreamer becomes the vehicle of emotions, fantasies,and anxieties that dominate the group at a given moment, allowing them to be understood and processed (Friedma...
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Introduction: Working with dreams in groups allows understanding of unconscious phenomena that characterize it as unity and totality. The dreamer becomes the vehicle of emotions, fantasies,and anxieties that dominate the group at a given moment, allowing them to be understood and processed (Friedman et al., 2002). Recognizing a projected theme in the group generates a change of perspective for the group, which becomes a specific psychic space (Kaës, 2001), a shared psychic field. The analysis of the shared dreams helps the understanding of the emotional concerns related to the Covid 19 and its psychological repercussions. Methods: Six matrices of social dreaming of different groups for analytical purposes were conducted during the Covid pandemic period. The sessions were transcribed and the texts were analyzed by performing a thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006) with the support of Atlas.ti software. Results: From the analysis of the results, three main themes were identified: a) “Lately I have more nightmares when I am awake than when I am asleep": Nightmares during the Covid-19 pandemic; b) “Losing one’s senses and losing the sense”: Helplessness and environmental mastery across time and space; c) Do play like a child: Recalling the child-past in the uncertain present. Discussion and conclusions: Through dreams and dream narratives we witness the evolution of group thinking through a progressive growth of the links between individuals and the common and shared field. The members of the group are thus able to identify within dreams the meanings that are useful for the entire group to process the painful experience that unites them.
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| spelling | doaj.art-358d2597b23647eb88df5c25a22a19132022-12-29T14:46:55ZengPAGEPress PublicationsResearch in Psychotherapy2499-75522239-80312022-12-0125310.4081/ripppo.2022.646The extended unconscious group field and metabolization of pandemic experience: dreaming together to keep cohesion aliveCristina Marogna0Chiara Masaro1Vincenzo Calvo2Floriana Caccamo3Università degli Studi di PadovaUniversità degli Studi di PadovaUniversità degli Studi di PadovaASP Ragusa Introduction: Working with dreams in groups allows understanding of unconscious phenomena that characterize it as unity and totality. The dreamer becomes the vehicle of emotions, fantasies,and anxieties that dominate the group at a given moment, allowing them to be understood and processed (Friedman et al., 2002). Recognizing a projected theme in the group generates a change of perspective for the group, which becomes a specific psychic space (Kaës, 2001), a shared psychic field. The analysis of the shared dreams helps the understanding of the emotional concerns related to the Covid 19 and its psychological repercussions. Methods: Six matrices of social dreaming of different groups for analytical purposes were conducted during the Covid pandemic period. The sessions were transcribed and the texts were analyzed by performing a thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006) with the support of Atlas.ti software. Results: From the analysis of the results, three main themes were identified: a) “Lately I have more nightmares when I am awake than when I am asleep": Nightmares during the Covid-19 pandemic; b) “Losing one’s senses and losing the sense”: Helplessness and environmental mastery across time and space; c) Do play like a child: Recalling the child-past in the uncertain present. Discussion and conclusions: Through dreams and dream narratives we witness the evolution of group thinking through a progressive growth of the links between individuals and the common and shared field. The members of the group are thus able to identify within dreams the meanings that are useful for the entire group to process the painful experience that unites them. https://www.researchinpsychotherapy.org/index.php/rpsy/article/view/646social dreaming, pandemic, cohesion, unconscious |
| spellingShingle | Cristina Marogna Chiara Masaro Vincenzo Calvo Floriana Caccamo The extended unconscious group field and metabolization of pandemic experience: dreaming together to keep cohesion alive Research in Psychotherapy social dreaming, pandemic, cohesion, unconscious |
| title | The extended unconscious group field and metabolization of pandemic experience: dreaming together to keep cohesion alive |
| title_full | The extended unconscious group field and metabolization of pandemic experience: dreaming together to keep cohesion alive |
| title_fullStr | The extended unconscious group field and metabolization of pandemic experience: dreaming together to keep cohesion alive |
| title_full_unstemmed | The extended unconscious group field and metabolization of pandemic experience: dreaming together to keep cohesion alive |
| title_short | The extended unconscious group field and metabolization of pandemic experience: dreaming together to keep cohesion alive |
| title_sort | extended unconscious group field and metabolization of pandemic experience dreaming together to keep cohesion alive |
| topic | social dreaming, pandemic, cohesion, unconscious |
| url | https://www.researchinpsychotherapy.org/index.php/rpsy/article/view/646 |
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