The Social Dreaming Matrix as a “double founding myth” - Explorations in the building of collective identity.

Abstract

This paper examines the function of SDM as an experience of a double foundation of the mind and as a device which highlights the founding aspect of the dream and its semiophoric characteristic. The paper try to find out a vision of the function and the characteristic of the matrix thinking as a double foundation myth. The first is “symbolopoietic” and is characterized by its unsaturated and creative nature, that is open to new symbolizations. The second image is defined as “aetiological” as it is dominated by the annulment of the allegorical morphology of the image, which is transformed into a fact which obeys a precise cause. Finally the Matrix becomes the constituting of what we can call “the psychic intentionality of the social in becoming”. The study of dream icons is the final step to observe the concept of “semiophore”.