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

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.

Acknowledgements; Introduction by Thomas Singer;  Preface by Jules Cashford;  Part 1: Meta Themes In American Cultural Complexes;  Chapter 1: Heres 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;&lSN