The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups, and Societies, Volume 2: Mainly Foundation Matrices

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This book is concerned with the study of myths, which are an important element in the cultural dimension of the foundation matrices of all societies. It focuses on topics such as transmission, the foundation matrix, the social unconscious, totalitarianism, massification, and identity formation. Contents Acknowledgements About the Editors and Contributors Introduction • Earl Hopper and Haim Weinberg PART I: MYTHS 1. Born with a knife in their hearts: transmission, trauma, identity and the social unconscious • Stephen Frosh 2. Further thoughts about the foundation matrix, the social unconscious, and the collective unconscious: the myth of the Tower of Babel • Hanni Biran 3. Aspects of the social unconscious reflected in traditional folktales: the case of the Druze community in Israel • Ravit Raufman PART II: FOUNDATION MATRICES 4. The German social unconscious: second generation perpetrator symptoms in organisations and groups • Gerhard Wilke 5. Psychoanalytic view of the totalitarian mentality: the case of the Czech experience • Olga Marlin 6. Contemporary manifestations of the social unconscious in Japan: post trauma massification and difficulties in identity formation after the Second World War • Kaoru Nishimura 7. The Irish social unconscious in relation to disability • Alan Corbett and Tamsin Cottis 8. Reflections upon Brazilian social unconscious • Carla Penna Index