Tom Singer — Cultural complexes and the soul of America

Psychosocial Wednesdays with Tom Singer (May 20th, 2020)

CULTURAL COMPLEXES AND THE SOUL OF AMERICA

Beginning in 2016/17, Tom Singer began to envision a book of collected essays that would explore the multiple cultural complexes fueling the current political crisis in America. He engaged 16 different authors (mostly from the United States, but also some from outside the United States to give a contemporary "de Tocqueville” perspective) to explore the topic of “Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America.” The basic premise of the book is that soul is forged in the working out of complexes—both personal and cultural. Singer argues that the soul of America is being renewed and/or destroyed by what we are doing with our cultural complexes—or perhaps as Jung might have said—what our cultural complexes are doing with us. The book will be published on June 6, 2020 and this presentation and discussion will be a preview of its contents.

Thomas Singer, MD, is a psychiatrist and Jungian psychoanalyst who trained at Yale Medical School, Dartmouth Medical School, and the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He is the author of many books and articles that include a series of books on cultural complexes that have focused on Australia, Latin America, Europe, the United States, and Far East Asian countries, in addition to another series of books featuring Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche. He serves on the board of ARAS (Archive for Research into Archetypal Symbolism) and has served as co-editor of ARAS Connections for many years.

Psychosocial Wednesdays is an initiative by: Paul Attinello, Stefano Carpani and Bernhard von Guretzky. The right of Tom Singer, Paul Attinello, Stefano Carpani and Bernhard von Guretzky to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright. Music: Mixkit