Reflections and invitation to read Robi Friedman’s book: Dreamtelling, disturbi della relazione e matrice del soldato

Journal title GRUPPI
Author/s Silvia Corbella
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2021/2
Language Italian Pages 13 P. 213-222 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/gruoa2-2021oa15818
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Roby Friedmann’s book, of great interest and innovative in many respects, highlights the author’s ability to learn courageously from his own life experience. This allowed the author to express great creativity and authenticity in dealing with the issues dealt with, starting with dreamtelling and highlighting its relational dynamics. The focus on relationships characterises the entire text. The author tackles and deepens the theme of the pathology of relationships and recalls that Foulkes had already hypothesised that the pathology was not of the individual but in the relationships, a hypothesis confirmed by work in the group setting. The third concluding part, which is particularly creative, concerns the soldier’s matrix, which refers not only to the army but also to the highly militarised social environment in which it is embedded and the relationship that is established with an enemy group. The reading reveals a constant ethical tension in which the tripartite matrix is not only the cornerstone of psychoanalysis, but of the life of every human being in which the individual matrix, the foundational matrix and the dynamic matrix recede, approach and overlap, opening us to trust and hope.

Keywords: ; Dreamtelling; Pathology of relationships; Operational Groups; Soldier matrix; Sandwich model; Tripartite matrix

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Silvia Corbella, Riflessioni e invito a leggere il libro di Robi Friedman: Gestire i conflitti. Dreamtelling, disturbi della relazione e matrice del soldato in "GRUPPI" 2/2021, pp 213-222, DOI: 10.3280/gruoa2-2021oa15818