Intergenerational Complexes in Analytical Psychology - The Suffering of Ghosts

This book demonstrates the many ways that our internal lives are organized and patterned by cultural complexes, and how individual experiences are narrated by archetypal story formations, or 'phantom narratives'.

List of contents

1. Working with cultural phantoms through cultural complexes 2. Floating worlds and their phantoms in the aftermath of social catastrophes 3. Phantoms at the cultural level 4. Unbearable things, unseen 5. Phantom narratives and the uncanny in cultural life: psychic presences and their shadows 6. Between the world and me: where the wild things live 7. A framework for cultural activism in the consulting room 8. James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: othering through racialized intersubjectivities

About the author

Samuel L. Kimbles is a psychologist, Jungian analyst, member and former president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, and a clinical professor (VCF) in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He has a private practice in San Francisco and Santa Rosa, California, and works as a clinical consultant to organizations. In addition to lecturing and presenting widely, he has published several works on the cultural complex. Phantom Narratives: The Unseen Contributions of Culture to Psyche explores the themes of psyche in groups and society. This book Intergenerational Complexes in Analytical Psychology: The Suffering of Ghosts continues the processes of exploring the unconscious at the level of culture and groups.

Summary

This book demonstrates the many ways that our internal lives are organized and patterned by cultural complexes, and how individual experiences are narrated by archetypal story formations, or ‘phantom narratives’.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel L. Kimbles, Kimbles Samuel L.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.04.2021
• EAN: 9780367513269
• ISBN: 978-0-367-51326-9
• No. of pages: 96
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Ethnic Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Trauma & shock, Psychotherapy, Humanities, Trauma and shock, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Jungian, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity