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

__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. Cover Endorsments Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of Figures Synopsis Editor Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Preface PART I: Meta Themes in American Cultural Complexes 1. Here’s Johnny! American Carnival in Modern Times 2. The Purity Complex 3. The Cultural Complex and Addiction to Dominion: Psychic Evolution Cannot Be Thwarted 4. Wrestling with Our Angels: Inner and Outer Democracy in America Under the Shadow of Donald Trump 5. America Exists! Reflections on My American Cultural Complex 6. The Second Goya PART II: Specific Cultural Complexes Race 7. Every Voice, Every Vote Counts: Challenges to a Multicultural Democracy in the Shadow of American Political Economy and American Cultural Complexes 8. The Racial Complex 9. Crime and Punishment in America: A Cultural Black Hole Gender 10. The Body Blow of Trumpism: Shame and Fear as a Cultural Complex 11. Walt Whitman on Religious Liberty: Marriage Equality and the American Cultural Complex Immigration 12. An Immigrant’s Transit: From a Multicultural Complex to a Multicultural Mind National Character 13. Our Divisible Nation: In the Grip of an Alpha Narcissistic Complex 14. The Child in 21st-Century American Film Environment 15. A Tale of Two Cultures: Climate Change and American Complexes Healthcare 16. Biomedicine: Its Cultural Complex and Its Dispiriting Index "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."-- Provided by publisher 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.