How 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.
Author(s): Thomas Singer
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 296
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 10
Notes on contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
The cultural complex in the psyche of the group......Page 28
The cultural complex and archetypal defenses of the group spirit: Baby Zeus, Elian Gonzales, Constantine's Sword, and other holy wars (with special attention to ~the axis of evil~)......Page 30
Malinchismo: betraying one's own......Page 52
A long weekend: Alice Springs, Central Australia......Page 63
The foot-race for a prize......Page 79
When a religious archetype becomes a cultural complex: Puritanism in America......Page 81
Trauma and abuse: the development of a cultural complex in the history of Latin America......Page 95
Postmodern consciousness in the novels of Haruki Murakami: an emerging cultural complex......Page 107
Corruption: symptom of a cultural complex in Brazil?......Page 119
What does it mean to be in ~The West~? Psychotherapy as a cultural complex;~Foreign~ insights into ~domestic~ healing practices......Page 141
The cultural complex in the psyche of the group and the individual......Page 162
Collective trauma and cultural complexes......Page 164
Light the seven fires;seize the seven desires......Page 188
Cultural complexes in the history of Jung, Freud and their followers......Page 202
The cultural complex in the psyche of the individual: clinical cases......Page 214
A cultural complex operating in the overlap of clinical and cultural space......Page 216
Exploring racism: a clinical example of a cultural complex......Page 229
A clinical encounter with a cultural complex......Page 240
The cultural complex and individuation of the group......Page 254
Ubuntu;a contribution to the ~civilization of the universal~......Page 256
Towards a theory of organizational culture: integrating the ~other~ from a post-Jungian perspective......Page 268
On the politics of individuation in the Americas......Page 279
Index......Page 292
