The Cultural Complex: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives on Psyche and SocietyHow do cultural complexes affect the collective psyche? Based on Jung's theory of complexes, this book offers a new perspective on the psychological nature of conflicts between groups and cultures by introducing the concept of the cultural complex. This modern version of Jung's idea offers an original view of the forces that prevent human attempts to bring a peaceful, collaborative spirit to conflict between groups. Leading analysts and academics from a range of cultural backgrounds present their own perspective on the concept, demonstrating how the effects of cultural complexes can be felt in the behaviour of disenfranchised, oppressed and traumatised groups across the world. Ultimately, a clearer understanding of the source and nature of group conflict is reached through discussion of central subjects including: * Collective trauma and cultural complexes * Exploring racism: a clinical example of a cultural complex * Cultural complexes in the history of Jung, Freud and their followers. The Cultural Complex represents a valuable contribution to analytical psychology and will undoubtedly also stimulate dialogue in the fields of sociology, political science and cultural studies. |
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Contents
The cultural complex and archetypal defenses of the group spirit | 13 |
Malinchismo Betraying ones own | 35 |
A long weekend Alice Springs Central Australia | 46 |
The footrace for a prize | 62 |
When a religious archetype becomes a cultural complex | 64 |
Trauma and abuse The development of a cultural complex in the history of Latin America | 78 |
Postmodern consciousness in the novels of Haruki Murakami | 90 |
Corruption Symptom of a cultural complex in Brazil? | 102 |
Cultural complexes in the history of Jung Freud and their followers | 185 |
The cultural complex in the psyche of the individual clinical cases | 197 |
A cultural complex operating in the overlap of clinical and cultural space | 199 |
Exploring racism A clinical example of a cultural complex | 212 |
A clinical encounter with a cultural complex | 223 |
The cultural complex and individuation of the group | 237 |
Ubuntu a contribution to the civilization of the universal | 239 |
Towards a theory of organizational culture Integrating the other from a postJungian perspective | 251 |
What does it mean to be in The West? Psychotherapy as a cultural complex foreign insights into domestic healing practices | 124 |
The cultural complex in the psyche of the group and the individual | 145 |
Collective trauma and cultural complexes | 147 |
Light the seven fires seize the seven desires | 171 |
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| Title | The Cultural Complex: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives on Psyche and Society |
| Editors | Thomas Singer, Samuel L. Kimbles |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Psychology Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 1583919139, 9781583919132 |
| Length | 279 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Essays |
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