Review article

https://doi.org/10.24869/psihei.71

ACTIVITY AND EXPRESSION OF MENTAL PROCESSES IN DREAMS AND GROUP PHENOMENA

Gorana Bolić Vadlja orcid.org/0000-0002-6003-4507 ; IGA Zagreb; Neuropsychiatric Hospital “Dr Ivan Barbot” Popovača,

Abstract

Group setting and dynamics have their own specifics that affect dreamwork. The topic of
dreams in a group setting is rather complex. While some group analysts find controversy and
incompleteness in Foulkes’s concept of dreams, the others interpret certain aspects in a new
way, recognizing them in the contemporary context. Knowledge of the activities related to
mental processes and their expression contributes to a better understanding of group processes
and dreams, not only as intrapsychic but also as intersubjective phenomena. Dreams in a
group are impossible to study in isolation from other theoretical concepts of group analysis.
This paper provides a brief history of the perception of the primary process and dreams,
establishes a link to Foulkes’s theory of group analysis and gives an example of working
with dreams in an analytical group.

Keywords

dreams in a group; mental processes; matrix; resonance; intersubjectivity

Hrčak ID:

270467

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/270467

Publication date:

3.1.2022.

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