Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups, and Societies

Hopper, Earl

• 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