Psychodrama, Group Processes and Dreams

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.