Vision, Reality and Complex: Jung, Politics and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367538187 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 112 str.

Thomas Singer

Opis

Vision, Reality and Complex brings together a rich selection of Thomas Singer’s scholarship on the development of the cultural complex theory and explores the relationship between vision, reality and illusion in politics and psyche.

Spis treści

1. Introduction to The Vision Thing  2. The Cultural Complex and Archetypal Defenses of the Collective Spirit: Baby Zeus, Elian Gonzales, Constantine’s Sword, and Other Holy Wars  3. Unconscious Forces Shaping International Conflicts: Archetypal Defenses of the Group Spirit from Revolutionary America to Conflict in the Middle East  4. The Cultural Complex: A Statement of the Theory and Its Application 5. Playing the Race Card: A Cultural Complex in Action  6. Snapshots of the Obamacare Cultural Complex  7. Extinction Anxiety: Where the Spirit of the Depths Meets the Spirit of the Times, or Extinction Anxiety and the Yearning for Annihilation

O autorze

Thomas Singer, MD, is a psychiatrist and Jungian psychoanalyst who trained at Yale Medical School, Dartmouth Medical School, and the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He is the author of many books and articles that include a series of books on cultural complexes that have focused on Australia, Latin America, Europe, the United States, and Far East Asian countries, in addition to another series of books featuring Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche. He serves on the board of ARAS (Archive for Research into Archetypal Symbolism) and has served as coeditor of ARAS Connections for many years.