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Dreams are personal or collective? - Sergio Stagnitta - www.colazionearipetere.blogspot.com

In this second post I want to continue the theme of the dreams of children who have already experienced speaking project KidZdream post in the January 3, 2010. On that occasion I wrote of the effectiveness of a project involving the collection of the dreams of children from different parts of the world, because these dreams can be a powerful message, and above all a hope to break down barriers of racism carried out by a culture increasingly individualistic.

The title of this post is, in fact, a reflection on whether the dreams are personal, so if you develop intrapsychic experience of each of us, or if the dreams are a collective experience.

Many psychoanalytic theories suggest that when a person relates a dream in a group of course brings personal, individual, but at the same time, often if not always, the dream also tells something of the group. It comes from a climate that the group is living in a given period, then, simultaneously, a dream of a group and as such often is treated not only the conductor group but also by other participants, who may add thoughts, associations, memories, to dream other dreams recounted.

This experience is of course supported by various psychoanalytic theories, most notably the theory of social dreaming proposed by the English psychoanalyst Lawrence Gordon. It claims that there is an unconscious link, a common matrix of experience that can bring out the dream. This common matrix can suggest to us a lot about personal experiences, but primarily social in which the dreamer is immersed.

The idea of \u200b\u200bGordon Lawrence was born from random a book titled "The Third Reich of Dreams" by Charlotte Peradt, a German psychotherapist who, between 1933 and 1939, Germany had collected 300 dreams that expressed so direct reactions of dreamers al clima politico minaccioso dell'epoca.

Naturalmente ascoltare i sogni dei bambini, come ho affermato nel precedente post, aggiunge un ulteriore elemento a mio avviso estremamente significativo: non solo questi sogni esprimono la particolare cultura in cui vivono i bambini, ad esempio nei video proposti dal progetto KZ i bambini africani sognano di essere inseguiti da leoni e altri animali selvaggi, mentre i bambini italiani raccontano sogni con case, furgoni, spie segrete ecc., ma fanno emergere anche qualcosa di ancora più profondo: la modalità comunicativa e collettiva dell'inconscio che porta con sé i desideri e le paure più ancestrali dei bambini stessi e naturalmente anche degli adulti, anche se nel caso adults are often mediated by the most sophisticated.

This ability of the dream to bring both personal and social factors is described by some authors as a self-representation : the ability to capture individual elements of the dreamer and the context of belonging, a representation of what happens in the inner world of dreamer and, simultaneously, in his external world .

course are not just dreams, seen from the social point of view, the only form of self-representation of our reality, has great evocative power of different forms of art such as theater, painting, music, literature and cinema more other approaches to the dream for his ability to communicate through images. In fact, one need only reflect more carefully on such films of a certain historical period in order to understand many aspects of society.

In conclusion, we can answer the question, raised by the title of this post that dreams are at once personal and social experiences.