Group-Analytic Contexts, Issue 78, December 2017

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all of the dimensions of all of the parts of the tripartite matrix.
I would like you to join me here and now in making a
Kiddush over three new books which have just been published in The
New International Library of Group Analysis (NILGA). The first is
entitled The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups and Societies:
Volume 3: The Foundation Matrix Extended and Re-Configured,
which I edited with Haim Weinberg.
We have been influenced by Dieter Nitzgen, Juan Tubert-
Oklander and Tom Ormay. I am particularly grateful to Dieter who
has co-authored with me the first chapter on the tripartite matrix. He
knows so much about the work of Foulkes, and has forced me to reread
it, and to appreciate it more fully than I did the first time around.
In this book you will find a discussion of the shift from
systems thinking to matrix thinking in group analysis; chapters on
non-verbal communication, specifically music; and chapters on
“peoples” and their social unconscious, as well as chapters on the
foundation matrices of specific societies. We have emphasised
Middle Eastern societies and the peoples of Israel, Palestine and Egypt.
The Table of Contents offers a good indication of what this
book is about:
The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups and Societies
Volume 3: The Foundation Matrix Extended and Re-Configured
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
INTRODUCTION Earl Hopper and Haim Weinberg
PART I
THEORY
CHAPTER ONE
The concepts of the social unconscious and of the matrix in the work
of S. H. Foulkes
Dieter Nitzgen and Earl Hopper
CHAPTER TWO
The fluid and the solid – or the dynamic and the static: some further
thoughts about the conceptualisation of “foundation matrices”
processes of the “social unconscious” and/or “large group identities”
Regine Scholz
CHAPTER THREE
The national habitus: steps towards reintegrating sociology and group
analysis
Gad Yair