Social Dreaming, Associative Thinking and Intensities of Affect
Authors: Manley, Julian
Free Preview- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Julian Manley is a Research Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.
- Reviews
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“There is no doubt this is an essential book in this realm of psychosocial studies. For any social dreamer, this book has immense value as a transitional space to rethink some of the dearly held principles in social dreaming. ... This book is, therefore, an essential guide towards a reframing of theoretical perspectives or even new theories for the future of social dreaming.” (Angela Eden, Organisational & Social Dynamics, Vol. 19 (2), 2019)
- Table of contents (16 chapters)
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How It All Began
Pages 3-19
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Problems in Conceptualising Social Dreaming
Pages 21-32
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From Group Relations to the Social Dreaming Matrix
Pages 33-42
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Social Dreaming in a New Key
Pages 45-53
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From Thinking Linearity to Feeling Non-linearity
Pages 55-77
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Social Dreaming, Associative Thinking and Intensities of Affect
- Authors
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- Julian Manley
- Series Title
- Studies in the Psychosocial
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-92555-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-92555-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-92554-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-06458-7
- Series ISSN
- 2662-2629
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIII, 266
- Number of Illustrations
- 6 b/w illustrations
- Topics
