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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 brings together leaders in Jungian and archetypal psychology to forge this path by offering a comprehensive look at the American psyche.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
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 brings together leaders in Jungian and archetypal psychology to forge this path by offering a comprehensive look at the American psyche.
