Re-Visioning the American Psyche
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-35188-9 (ISBN)
The United States is at a crossroads: Moving away from the stalemate of political polarization and culture wars requires reflection, critical thinking, and imagination. This book of collected essays brings together leaders in Jungian and archetypal psychology to forge this path by offering a comprehensive look at the American psyche.
Re-Visioning the American Psyche examines the myths, images, and archetypal fantasies ingrained in the collective consciousness and unconscious in the United States. The volume tends to manifest symptoms in political institutions, social conflicts, and cultural movements. Using various interpretative processes—from psychoanalytic to literary and to participatory—it reflects on the meaning of democratic participation, the psychological cost of wars and violence, intergenerational trauma due to racism, the emotional dimensions of political polarization, deep-seated oppositional thinking in patriarchal structures, frailty of the American Dream, and more.
With its rich scope, interdisciplinary scholarship, and critical engagement with historical and current affairs, this book will be of great interest to those in Jungian and depth psychology, as well as sociology, politics, cultural studies, and American studies. As a timely contribution with an international appeal, it will engage readers who are invested in better understanding psychology’s capacity to respond to social, cultural, and political realities.
Ipek S. Burnett, PhD, is the author of A Jungian Inquiry into the American Psyche: The Violence of Innocence (Routledge). Based in San Francisco, she works with human rights and social justice organizations and writes novels in her native language, Turkish.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.12.2023 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 4 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 460 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-35188-8 / 1032351888 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-35188-9 / 9781032351889 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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