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Dream Theatre

其他書名	Soul Work Through Embodiment
出版	Pacifica Graduate Institute, 1998
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_UtWOAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋In the dream theatre, dreams are re-enacted in the group context. The group members embody their dream images and the dream images of the other members to re-enact psyche's play. While embodying, one engages in imaginal or scripted dialogues, experiences the gestural field of the other players, and explores the landscape of the dream. The participants live in the active imagination. This work is concerned with exploring the dream theatre from a phenomenological approach. Moustakas' heuristic method is used to examine the experience of being a dream theatre participant. Six participants were ask the open-ended question: "What was your experience as you embodied the dream image and re-enacted your dream, as you re-enacted the dreams of the other members, and as you watched dreams being re-enacted?" These participants were members of a dream theatre group that was formed at Pacifica Graduate Institute for a 2-year period. The data derived was analysed to create a composite depiction of the experience-five individual portraits that exemplify the experience, and a creative synthesis of the experience. Throughout cultural history, the humans' proclivity towards re-enactment is exhibited. The origins of theatre in Greek civilization are derived from ritual and pageantry dedicated to the god Dionysus. Aspects of the theories of Freud, Jung, Klein, and Winnicott that are foundational to re-enactment of the dream are discussed. Also, contemporary imaginal psychology is presented as intrinsically supportive to dream re-enactment. A compilation of psychophysical techniques, which can be used to open up one's experience of the dream in the theatrical context, are presented including the unpublished work of dream theatre director Jon Lipsky and the sensory work of Stanislavski. This study indicates that embodiment of the dream image and re-enactment of the dream opened up the dream for most members in ways that they believed could not have been experienced in exclusively verbal therapy. The experience of living in the dream is collectively described as providing a feeling of wholeness, a coming together of body and soul. This study demonstrates that embodying the dream image in the theatre is an important means towards healing the mind/body split