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The Social Dreaming Matrix as a “double founding myth”: Explorations in the building of collective trauma.

This work examines the function of the SDM as an experience of a double foundation of the mind and as a device which highlights the founding aspect of the dream and its semiophoric characteristic. The Matrix creates a complex representation by means of dreams which is repeated and modified in time (Agresta, 2016) – albeit putting its founding dimension at the base of its creative process – the network of dreams or the multiverse of meanings is a complex construction of social thinking. Reflecting on this Freud distinguished between memory and trauma: memory is the mnestic trace of an event; the trauma consists in the investment of this trace which transforms the trace into an eziological event. It is only as a memory that the event becomes a base for eziological elaboration, since it is on the mnestic trace that the psychic or pulsional excitement flows. Ultimately it’s thus the pulsion (drive) which transforms the memory into a trauma. Working with dreams we can build a semantic dimension and then translate a new dimension into a cultural object which puts the visible in contact with the invisible (semiophore).The SDM becomes a methodology to observe and apply this psychological experience.

Presentation Type
Symposium
Language of Presentation
English
About Speaker

Domenico Agresta

Domenico Agresta is formerly Trustee of the Gordon Lawrence Foundation, now member of Social Dreaming International Network. He is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, group- analyst (Full GASi Member) and psycho-oncologist. President of the Centre for the Study of Psychology and Psychosomatic Medicine (CSPP). IAGP Member and Board Member of SIMP.
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