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Antonia S. Byatt in Possession has described certain kinds of readings that seem to be inextricable from certain experiences of writing, ‘when the knowledge that we shall know the writing differently or better or satisfactorily runs ahead of any capacity to say what we know, or how. In these readings a sense that the text has appeared to be wholly new, never before seen, is followed, almost immediately, by the sense that it was always there, that we the readers, knew it was always there, and have always known it was as it was, though we have for the first time recognized, become fully cognisant of, our knowledge’ (Morrison 1992, p. xiii).
Reading Gordon Lawrence's second book on social dreaming (the first being Social Dreaming at Work) draws on the reader's own capacity for dreaming and (free) association. It is full of images (from the numerous dreams recounted in the diverse settings) and associations to the dreams by the group membership. These lead into a discussion of the potential meanings of the dream material within the social and political context in which the dreams were dreamt. Lawrence does not claim to have invented social