Social Dreaming in the 21st Century: The World We Are Losing PDF
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SOCIAL DREAMING IN THE 21ST CENTURY CCLLAARREESSOO..iinnddbb ii 1100//1155//0099 88::1155::5588 PPMM CCLLAARREESSOO..iinnddbb iiii 1100//1155//0099 88::1155::5588 PPMM SOCIAL DREAMING IN THE 21ST CENTURY The world we are losing John Clare and Ali Zarbafi Foreword by W. Gordon Lawrence CCLLAARREESSOO..iinnddbb iiiiii 1100//1155//0099 88::1155::5599 PPMM First published in 2009 by Karnac Books Ltd 118 Finchley Road London NW3 5HT Copyright © 2009 by John Clare and Ali Zarbafi The right of John Clare and Ali Zarbafi to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978-1-85575-554-3 Typeset by Vikatan Publishing Solutions (P) Ltd., Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain www.karnacbooks.com CCLLAARREESSOO..iinnddbb iivv 1100//1155//0099 88::1155::5599 PPMM CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii FOREWORD ix INTRODUCTION xvii CHAPTER ONE Social dreaming and the self 1 John Clare CHAPTER TWO The night train of social dreams 25 Ali Zarbafi CHAPTER THREE Dreaming after 9/11 37 CHAPTER FOUR Sweet honey in the rock 55 v CCLLAARREESSOO..iinnddbb vv 1100//1155//0099 88::1155::5599 PPMM vi CONTENTS CHAPTER FIVE The end of the dance: Dreams at a literary festival 71 Addendum by Jane Storr CHAPTER SIX We are all slaves to babble–land: A mass dreaming experiment 107 CHAPTER SEVEN Dreaming in the inner city 133 CHAPTER EIGHT Too late! Social dreaming in the Haute Languedoc 153 CHAPTER NINE Conclusion 189 GLOSSARY 199 BIBLIOGRAPHY 201 INDEX 205 CCLLAARREESSOO..iinnddbb vvii 1100//1155//0099 88::1166::0000 PPMM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are very grateful to all the dreamers in each of the matrices without whose dream telling and associations this book would not have been possible. In particular we want to show our appreciation to the hundreds of people at the Hay Festival who contributed their dreams by letter, email and in person. This includes the people of the town of Hay on Wye many of whom took part. Their interest and enthusiasm (and their dreaming) was inspiring. We apologise to those many contrib- utors whose dreams were ultimately not included in the text. They nevertheless played a vital part in the whole project and we read and reflected on every dream. We would also like to thank Clare Purcell and Peter Florence at the Hay Literary Festival without whose help our study would have been much more difficult. Also many thanks to Jane Storr for her personal reflection of the End of the Dance. Last but not least our gratitude to Dr. Karen Baistow Clare whose support, editing and sense of humour have been invaluable. vii CCLLAARREESSOO..iinnddbb vviiii 1100//1155//0099 88::1166::0000 PPMM CCLLAARREESSOO..iinnddbb vviiiiii 1100//1155//0099 88::1166::0000 PPMM FOREWORD ‘DREAMING THE SOCIAL’ John Clare and Ali Zarbafi came to the project of ‘dreaming the social’ from backgrounds in sociology and psychoanalysis and have pur- sued it with different groupings from heterogeneous backgrounds, as varied as writers at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival and the staff of a community centre for young people in North London. Both are psychotherapists, but they successfully have made the mental transition from an ego-centric orientation in their private practices to the socio-centric one demanded by ‘dreaming the social’. They have written a book of dream research that is, probably, unrivalled because of the profundity of the detail of dreaming and their discus- sions of each dreaming event. They have made a major contribution to ‘dreaming the social’, joining others in the international commu- nity who pursue the same objective. What is meant by ‘dreaming the social’? Human beings have been doing it for millennia, certainly from the time of The Epic of Gilgamesh dating from the third millennium BC which makes it the oldest oral, epic poem describing Gilgamesh’s futile search for immortality. ‘Dreaming the social’ demands a different mind set, ix CCLLAARREESSOO..iinnddbb iixx 1100//1155//0099 88::1166::0011 PPMM
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