Re-Visioning the American Psyche: Jungian, Archetypal, and Mythological Reflections [Paperback]

Editor? Contributors? ?Acknowledgements??Introduction??Part 1: Politics, Power, and Polarization??Introduction? 1. A Personal Reflection on Politics and the American Soul? 2. Violent Hearts: America's Divided Soul? 3. Captain Ahab and Donald Trump: False Claims, the Fragility of Belief, and the Perilous Ship of America's Soul??Part 2: Colonization, War, and Violence??Introduction? 4. Frontierism and the American Psyche? 5. The American Way of War? 6. Hate, Rage, Cultural War and Trump's Furies: The Monster in the American Psyche??Part 3: Transgenerational Trauma, Racism, and Social Justice??7. Defiant Remembering: A Quest to Heal Transgenerational Trauma? 8. Life from a View of the Shadow? 9. Toward Splendid Cities : The Thirst for the Imaginal in the Life of Community??Part 4: Gender, Sexuality, and the Patriarchy??Introduction? 10. In the Wake and Shadow of The Battle of the Sexes : A New Myth Is Arising? 11. Private Parts, Public Prejudice: Archetypes, Gender Essentialism, and Patriarchy??Part 5: Psychotherapy, Citizenship, and Cultural Movements??Introduction? 12. America's Child? 13. Archetypal Psychology and Fugitive Democracy? 14. Swimming the Wave: Occupying Uncertainty and the OWS Movement? 15.?Nomadland:?Searching the Horizon of the American Dream? Index?

Building on her brilliant cultural analysis in A Jungian Inquiry into the American Psyche, Burnett now brings together fifteen authors to reflect on a wide range of American topics from political polarization to intergenerational trauma to capitalism and patriarchy. With rigorous research, imagination, kaleidoscope insights and heartfelt expression, this collection confirms depth psychology's potential to contribute to social responsibility. Interdisciplinary in nature, timely and timeless l£‚