Overview
- Offers the first academic study of a method on the fringes of psychosocial studies
- Challenges some of the ontological bases restricting the use of social dreaming
- Considers the abstract, sensual, embodied, subjective and experiential nature of social dreaming data
Part of the book series: Studies in the Psychosocial (STIP)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Social Dreaming: Background and Origins
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From Data to New Thinking
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Keywords
About this book
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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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Julian Manley is a Research Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Dreaming, Associative Thinking and Intensities of Affect
Authors: Julian Manley
Series Title: Studies in the Psychosocial
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92555-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92554-7Published: 03 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06458-7Published: 14 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92555-4Published: 23 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-2629
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2637
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 266
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychosocial Studies, Psychological Methods/Evaluation, Personality and Social Psychology, Social Theory, Research Methodology