Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America: Myth, Psyche, and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780367272357 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 298 str.

Thomas Singer

Opis

This book explores many of the cultural complexes that comprise the collective psychic-filtering system of emotions, ideas, and beliefs that possess the United States today.

Spis treści

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 21^st-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

O autorze

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.