The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups, and Societies

Earl Hopper, PhD, is a psychoanalyst, group analyst, certified group therapist, and organisational consultant in private practice in London. A Distinguished Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, an Honorary Member of the Group Analytic Society International, and an Honorary Member of the Institute of Group Analysis, he is a supervisor and training analyst for many psychotherapy organizations in England. He is alos a former President of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP), and a former Chairman of the Association of Independent Psychoanalysts of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Haim Weinberg is a Californian and Israeli licensed psychologist and group analyst. He is Past-president of the Northern California Group Psychotherapy Society and the Israeli Association of Group Psychotherapy. He is the director of an international doctorate program in psychology with an emphasis on group psychotherapy at the Professional School of Psychology, Sacramento, California, where he serves as the academic Vice President.

Introduction -- Myths -- Born with a knife in their hearts: transmission, trauma, identity, and the social unconscious -- Further thoughts about the foundation matrix, the social unconscious, and the collective unconscious: the myth of the Tower of Babel -- Aspects of the social unconscious reflected in traditional folktales: the case of the Druze community in Israel -- Foundation Matrices -- The German social unconscious: second generation perpetrator symptoms in organisations and groups -- Psychoanalytic view of the totalitarian mentality: the case of the Czech experience -- Contemporary manifestations of the social unconscious in Japan: post trauma massification and difficulties in identity formation after the Second World War -- The Irish social unconscious in relation to disability -- Reflections upon Brazilian social unconscious