Psychodrama, Group Processes and Dreams: Archetypal Images of Individuation

Contents

• Historical origins
• Jacob L. Moreno and Morenian Psychodrama
• Carl Gustav Jung, Jacob Moreno and "Jungian" psychodrama
• The influence of Socratic thought
• The influence of Henry Bergson's thought
• Religious yearning
• Dramatic Action
• Dream Work
• Therapeutic Technique: From Catharsis to the working out of conflicts
• Psychodrama and the dream
• Physical space and the space of the soul
• Symbol and archtypal image as gateway between physical space and the space of the soul
• Psychodramatic space as it appears in group members' dreams
• Historical time and the time of the soul
• Symbol and archetypal image as gateway between linear historical time and cyclical time
• Time as it appears in group members' dreams
• The magic tree of Axis Mundi: The ascent
• Hermaphroditism
• Transvesticism: Ritual dressing and undressing
• The sacred meal
• Ritual dismemberment
• Initiatory sickness and ritual suicide
• The voyage to the underworld - The descent into the bowels of the earth: Underground water and the open sea: Depth, abyss, void: Death as a character and a symbol
• The passage through the elements: earth, water, air and fire
• The hidden treasure and the white light.