A Social Dreaming Experience at the Time of COVID 19

Author(s) : Elisabetta Pasini, Author(s) : Cinzia Trimboli

A Social Dreaming Experience at the Time of COVID 19

Book Details

  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Published : November 2024
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 142
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 98215
  • ISBN 13 : 9783031425004
  • ISBN 10 : 3031425006
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The book describes the experience of four Social Dreaming Matrices held online between March and May 2020, during the first lockdown caused by the Covid 19 emergency. The pandemic isolated us and imposed prolonged contact with ourselves and our solitary thoughts. Against this backdrop, there was hope for change, a desire for a different kind of sociability and different forms of intimacy. On the basis of this evidence, our research supports the shift "from experiencing trauma to reacting to trauma", looking at a collective traumatic experience not only as something to be overcome but as an opportunity for a transformation that changes our mental schemes in relation to the external context. We have identified Social Dreaming as a privileged technique to overcome a collective traumatic experience, supporting its elaboration through collective feelings, new connections between intuition and rational thought, the discovery of community meanings. The authors's thesis is that the much-needed transition from 'magical thinking' to 'transformative thinking' takes place in a setting that is able to contain the anxieties of life's transitional phases, supporting the creation of new rituals and new social bonds and sustaining the passage from “me” to a “wider we”.

Table of Contents


1. Introduction to Social Dreaming
2. Dreams and Collective Trauma
3. Dreams at the Time of COVID-19: A Social Dreaming Experience
4. Dreams, Symbols, Narratives: Dream as a Space of Imagination
5. The Narrative and Semiotic Approach
6. Social Dreaming Matrix as a Way to Build a Community of Intent: A Case History
7. A Tentative Conclusion: Dream Journeys as a Way towards a Collective Becoming

About the Author(s)

Elisabetta Pasini is a Jungian Psychoanalyst accredited at the Zurich C.G. Jung Institute for Analytical Psychology. With a Master in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics, in her professional career she got a significant experience on transcultural differences, change, innovation and creativity, that she developed in more than 15 years working and living in many different countries (UK, US, Latin America, Switzerland, Spain, Dubai). Based now in Milan, she is the Founder of The Flying Carpet Studio. She works as Personal Development Analyst at the IMD Business School in Lausanne, and has a long lasting collaboration with NAGA ONLUS in Milan to provide social, health and psychological assistance to refugees and asylum seekers.

Cinzia Trimboli is a psychologist with experience in corporate training and qualitative social and market research, where she has collaborated with market research institutions on the Italian and international scenesince 2008. A PSOA (psycho-socioanalysis) consultant for individual and organizational development, she is passionate about social and organizational research aimed at exploring emerging dynamics related to change. Since 2018, she has collaborated with the Master Degree in HR Training and Development at the Bicocca University of Milan. In 2021 she joined The Flying Carpet Studio, founded by Elisabetta Pasini, driven by the desire to continue exploring ways through which to support individuals and groups in moments of change.

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