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Cultural attitudes operate unconsciously, affecting our own self-perception as well as the way we perceive others. In Phantom Narratives: The Unseen Contributions of Culture to Psyche, Samuel Kimbles argues that it is imperative for a society to question its cultural complexes in order to fully engage its problems.
List of contents
Epigraph: "Interview with a Phantom: Cornelius Gurlitt Shares His Secrets"
Introduction
Chapter One: From Jung's Complex Theory to Cultural Complex theory and Phantom Narratives
Chapter Two: Phantom Narratives Unseen but Present: Background
Chapter Three: Phantoms Travel: The Journey to African-Cultural Melancholia in Black and White
Chapter Four: Cultural Complexes and Collective Shadow Processes
Chapter Five: Cultural Complexes and the Transmission of Group Traumas in Everyday Life
Chapter Six: Social Suffering through Cultural Mourning, Cultural Melancholia, and Cultural Complexes
Chapter Seven: A Cultural Complex Operating in the Overlap of Clinical and Cultural Space
Chapter Eight: Chaos and Fragmentation in Analytic Training Institutes
Bibliography
About the author
By Samuel Kimbles
Summary
Cultural attitudes operate unconsciously, affecting our own self-perception as well as the way we perceive others. In Phantom Narratives: The Unseen Contributions of Culture to Psyche, Samuel Kimbles argues that it is imperative for a society to question its cultural complexes in order to fully engage its problems.
