The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups, and Societies: Volume 3: The Foundation Matrix Extended and Re-configured

299 Pages·2017·1.382 MB·English

by  Earl Hopper, Haim Weinberg

The Social UnconScioUS in PerSonS,
GroUPS, and SocieTieS
neW inTernaTional liBrarY oF GroUP analYSiS
Series editor: earl hopper
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The Social
UnconScioUS
in PerSonS, GroUPS,
and SocieTieS
Volume 3:
The Foundation Matrix
extended and re-configured
Edited by
Earl Hopper and Haim Weinberg
First published in 2017 by
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS xi
INTRODUCTION xv
Earl Hopper and Haim Weinberg
PART I
THEORY
CHAPTER ONE
The concepts of the social unconscious and of the matrix
in the work of S. H. Foulkes 3
Dieter Nitzgen and Earl Hopper
CHAPTER TWO
The fluid and the solid—or the dynamic and the static: some
further thoughts about the conceptualisation of foundation
matrices, processes of the social unconscious, and/or
large group identities 27
Regine Scholz
v
vi conTenTS
CHAPTER THREE
The national habitus: steps towards reintegrating sociology
and group analysis 47
Gad Yair
CHAPTER FOUR
The inner organisation of the matrix 65
Juan Tubert-Oklander
PART II
NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION
CHAPTER FIVE
The unbearable appeal of totalitarianism and the collective
self: an inquiry into the social nature of non-verbal
communication 89
Helena Klímová
CHAPTER SIX
The musical foundation matrix: communicative musicality as a
mechanism for the transmission and elaboration of co-created
unconscious social processes 107
Linde Wotton
PART III
EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF THE SOCIAL UNCONSCIOUS
AND THE DYNAMIC AND FOUNDATION MATRICES OF
MIDDLE EASTERN PEOPLES AND SOCIETIES
CHAPTER SEVEN
The social unconscious of Israeli Jews: described and
analysed by an Israeli living in North America 129
Haim Weinberg
CHAPTER EIGHT
“Black holes” as a collective defence against shared fears
of annihilation in a small therapy group and in its
contextual society 151
Yael Doron
conTenTS vii
CHAPTER NINE
The social unconscious of the Palestinian people 163
Sa’ed Tali
CHAPTER TEN
“After the last sky”: Palestine, Palestinians, social memory 183
Martin Weegmann
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The social unconscious of the Egyptian people: an application
of some of the ideas of Bion and Klein 203
Mohamed Taha
CHAPTER TWELVE
Fundamental terror of ISIS: the story of a reversed family 225
Eran Shadach, Shulamit Geller, Yoram Schweitzer, and Einav Yogev
EPILOGUE 245
INDEX 249

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We are pleased to acknowledge the help and support of many colleagues
who have expressed a keen interest in the study of the social uncon-
scious. They are writing papers on various aspects of this topic, and
responding to our invitation to focus on clinical work. Our team are
very active in their participation in conferences and workshops, espe-
cially in their stimulating questions and comments. For her continu-
ing secretarial and administrative assistance, we are grateful to Céline
Stakol who has acquired a degree of expertise which remains unknown
until she is asked a question about such matters as the date of an obscure
publication. In the context of the New International Library of Group
Analysis our work has been supported by the Trust for the Study of
Social Trauma, the Abe Stern Family Foundation, and the Adler family.
Our own families have made the greatest donation to our continuing
work which unfortunately has become ever more urgent in the context
of the repetition of social trauma.
Earl Hopper, PhD
Haim Weinberg, PhD
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