Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America

Myth, Psyche, and Politics
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-27235-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 506 g

Reihe: The Cultural Complex Series

Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America explores many of the cultural complexes that comprise the collective psychic-filtering system of emotions, ideas, and beliefs that possess the United States today. With chapters by an international selection of leading authors, the book covers ideas both broad and specific, and presents unique insight into the current state of the nation.

The voices included in this volume amplify contemporary concerns, linking them to themes which have existed in the American psyche for decades while also looking to the future. Part One examines meta themes, including history, purity, dominion, and democracy in the age of Trump. Part Two looks at key complexes including race, gender, the environment, immigration, national character, and medicine. The overall message is that it is in wrestling with these complexes that the soul of America is forged or undone.

This highly relevant book will be essential reading for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas, politics, sociology, and American studies. It will also be of great interest to Jungian analysts in practice and in training, and anyone interested in the current state of the US.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singer, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (C.G. Jung)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Introduction by Thomas Singer; Preface by Jules Cashford; Part 1: Meta Themes In American Cultural Complexes; Chapter 1: Here’s Johnny! American Carnival in Modern Times by Stefano Carta; Chapter 2: The Purity Comples by Betty Sue Flowers; Chapter 3: The Cultural Complex and Addiction to Dominion: Psychic Evolution Cannot Be Thwarted by Jerome Bernstein; Chapter 4: Wrestling with our Angels: Inner and Outer Democracy in America Under the Shadow of Donald Trump by Donald E. Kalsched; Chapter 5: America Exists! Reflections on My American Cultural Complex by Joerg Rasche; Chapter 6: The Second Goya by Craig San Roque; Part 2: Specific Cultural Complexes; Race; Chapter 7: Every Voice, Every Vote Count: Challenges to a Multicultural Democracy in the Shadow of American Political Economy and American Cultural Complexes by Alan G. Vaughan; Chapter 8: The Racial Complex by Fanny Brewster; Chapter 9: Crime and Punishment in America: A Cultural Black Hole by Ronald Schenk; Gender; Chapter 10: The Body Blow of Trumpism: Shame and Fear as a Cultural Complex by Sharon Heath; Chapter 11: Walt Whitman on Religious Liberty, Marriage Equality, and the American Cultural Complex by Steven Herrmann; Immigration; Chapter 12: An Immigrant’s Transit: From a Multicultural Complex to a Multicultural Mind by Lynn Alicia Franco; National Character; Chapter 13: Our Divisible Nation: In the Grip of an Alpha Narcissistic Complex by Jacqueline J. West; Chapter 14: The Child in 21st-Century American Film by John Beebe; Environment; Chapter 15: A Tale of Two Cultures: Climate Change & American Complexes by Jeffrey T. Kiehl; Healthcare; Chapter 16: Bio Medicine: Its Cultural Complex and Its Dispiriting by Richard M. Timms, MD; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Singer, MD, is a psychiatrist and Jungian psychoanalyst, practicing in San Francisco. He is the editor of a series of books exploring cultural complexes in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America. His interests include studying the relationship between myth, politics, and psyche in The Vision Thing and the Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche series. He is current president of National ARAS, an archive of symbolic imagery.