Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 From Jung's Complex Theory to Cultural Complex Theory and Phantom Narratives; 2 Phantom Narratives Unseen but Present; 3 Phantoms Travel; 4 Cultural Complexes and Collective Shadow Processes; 5 Cultural Complexes and the Transmission of Group Traumas in Everyday Life; 6 Social Suffering Through Cultural Mourning, Cultural Melancholia, and Cultural Complexes; 7 A Cultural Complex Operating in the Overlap of Clinical and Cultural Space; 8 Chaos and Fragmentation in Analytic Training Institutes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-117) and index
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