Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups and Societies

Earl Hopper

• Foreword , Introduction , The Origins of the Concept of the Social Unconscious , The concept of the social unconscious in the work of S. H. Foulkes , The concept of the co-unconscious in Moreno’s psychodrama , Enrique Pichon-Rivière: the social unconscious in the Latin-American tradition of group analysis , The Organismic and Neurobiological Perspective , Introduction , Mirror neurons, sociality, and the species homo sapiens , The group mind, systems-centred functional subgrouping, and interpersonal neurobiology , The Relational and Interpersonal Perspective , Introduction , Working intersubjectively: what does it mean for theory and therapy? , The lost roots of the theory of group analysis: “interrelational individuals” or “persons” , The Mind of the Social System , Introduction , The false we/the false collective self: a dynamic part of the social unconscious , Manifestations of psychic retreats in social systems , The Matrix of the Social System , Introduction , The social unconscious and ideology: in clinical theory and practice , The foundation matrix and the social unconscious , The Numinous and the Unknown , Introduction , The social unconscious and the collective unconscious: the Jungian perspective , Intuiting knowledge from the social unconscious with special reference to social dreaming