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Social Dreaming, Associative Thinking and Intensities of Affect
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Social Dreaming, Associative Thinking and Intensities of Affect [electronic resource] / by Julian Manley.
ISBN
9783319925554
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
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1 online resource (XXIII, 266 p.) 6 illus.
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Summary
“This book is innovative in using Deleuze and Guattari's affect theory to provide an onto-epistemological basis for the Social Dreaming method. It works powerfully and its range is huge. A much-needed paradigm for encountering the anthropocene.” - Wendy Hollway, Emeritus Professor in Psychology, Open University, UK This book describes a way of sharing dreams in a group, called ‘social dreaming’. It explores how the sharing of real, night time dreams, in a group, can offer information on and insight into ourselves and the worlds we live in and share. It investigates how we can turn dream images, and ideas and feelings that arise from these images, into conscious thought, before describing the ways in which these can be used. Using a background of the psychosocial combined with a philosophical lens influenced by the work of Gilles Deleuze, Julian Manley shows how social dreaming can be understood as a Deleuzian ‘rhizome of affects’, a web or a root design where things interconnect in a random and spontaneous fashion rather than in a sequential or linear way. He illustrates how social dreaming can link dreams together into a collage of images, and compares this to the rhizome, where clusters of emotional intensity – which emerge from the dream images – weave and interconnect with other clusters, forming a web of interlinked dream images and emotions. From the basis of this rhizome emerges an interpretation of social dreaming as a ‘body without organs’ and the social dreaming matrix as a ‘smooth space’ where meanings emerge from the way these images form connections, and come and go according to our emotions at any particular moment. .
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Language
English
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September 07, 2018
Series
Studies in the Psychosocial
Contents
Foreword by Lita Crociani-Windland
PART I Social dreaming: origins, history and practice
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2. A brief history and background of social dreaming
Chapter 3. From group relations to the social dreaming matrix
PART II Deleuzian approaches
Chapter 4. Social Dreaming in a New Key
Chapter 5. From thinking linearity to feeling non-linearity
Chapter 6. The social dreaming collage and the Deleuzian rhizome
Chapter 7. Becoming dream: the dis-embodied/ embodied experience of social dreaming
PART III From data to new thinking
Chapter 8. Processing social dreaming material as data
Chapter 9. A Case Study: Slow Violence: Art, climate change and social dreaming
Chapter 10. Combining the internal virtual of the matrix dream space with external reality: Lessons of chaos and complexity
Chapter 11. Expressing the virtual and the image-affect: The problem of language
Chapter 12 Disembodiment, embodiment and the image-affect
Chapter 13 A note on post- Lawrence research on social dreaming
Chapter 14 Using the virtual for the real
Chapter 15 The final plateau
Concluding.
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