The Source of Tele - Lunchtime Reading Group - Friday 21 June 2013

This is the fourth Lunchtime Reading and Discussion Group for 2013.

Interpersonal Therapy and Co-Unconcious States,
A Progress Report in Psychodramatic Theory
by J. L. Moreno

This excerpt from the above article is the focus for our lunchtime discussion.  The article itself  really gets to grips with the concept of tele and looks at the unconscious as defined by Freud and the collective unconscious of Jung.  This reading group may be of interest to all doing individual therapy and especially those doing couple and family therapy and also those who work with groups of people.  For example teachers, administrators and youth workers.

  

"The 'first' encounter between two individuals who are destined to form an intimate ensemble is the starting point of co-conscious and co-unconscious states.  These states gain in significance from encounter to encounter.  They are experienced and produced jointly and can, therefore, be only jointly reproduced or re-enacted. A co-conscious or a co-unconscious state can not be the property of one individual only.  It is always a common property and can not be reproduced  but by a combined effort.  If a re-enactement of such co-conscious or co-unconscious state is desired or necessary, that re-enactment has to take place with the help of all partners involved in the event.  The logical method of such re-enactment 'a deux' or 'a plusieurs' is psychodrama.  However great the perceptive ability of one partner of the ensemble might be, he can not produce that event alone because both partners have in common their co-conscious and co-unconscious states which are the matrix from which they draw their inspiration and knowledge. Co-conscious and co-unconscious states are phenomena which they have 'co'-produced and which operate between partners who live in 'intimate' ensembles and can not be substituted by other persons; they are irreplaceable.  They are tied together through 'encounters'; it is life itself which binds them together and it is the experiences of living which develops between them an 'interpsyche', a structured stream of co-conscious and co-unconscious states.  The encounters between individuals and the co-conscious or unconscious states developed between them are the source from which tele, transference and empathy spring. Their operation within every group setting has been stated  by many observers and a consensus has been reached.  Transference dissociates; empathy perceives; tele integrates."

Discussant: Sue Daniel

RSVP Monday 17 June 2013 to Sue on 0417 586 791
Copies of the article for discussion are available from the discussant.

Date: Lunchtime, Friday 21 June 2013.  Meeting just after 12.30 for a 12.45 pm precise start.  Tea, hot chocolate and freshly brewed coffee are provided.  Bring your own lunch and $10.00, which goes toward books for the Zerka Moreno library at PIM.  The session finishes at 1.45 p.m sharp.