In this book, the authors develop the theory of the tripartite matrix, consider music as a form of non-verbal communication as a sub-dimension of the matrix, and present empirical studies of the matrices of peoples in three societies in the Middle East. It aids in the project of group analysis.
Author(s): Earl Hopper, Haim Weinberg
Series: The New International Library of Group Analysis
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 298
COVER
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
INTRODUCTION
PART I THEORY
CHAPTER ONE The concepts of the social unconscious and of the matrix in the work of S. H. Foulkes
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
CHAPTER THREE The national habitus: steps towards reintegrating sociology and group analysis
CHAPTER FOUR The inner organisation of the matrix
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
CHAPTER SIX The musical foundation matrix: communicative musicality as a mechanism for the transmission and elaboration of co-created unconscious social processes
PART III EMPIRICAL STUDIE S 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
CHAPTER EIGHT “Black holes” as a collective defence against shared fears of an nihilation in a small therapy group and in its contextual society
CHAPTER NINE The social unconscious of the Palestinian people
CHAPTER TEN “After the last sky”:* Palestine, Palestinians, social memory
CHAPTER ELEVEN The social unconscious of the Egyptian people: an application of some of the ideas of Bion and Klein
CHAPTER TWELVE Fundamental terror of ISIS: the story of a reversed family
EPILOGUE
INDEX
