Re-Visioning the American Psyche

<p>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 of collected essays brings together leaders in Jungian and archetypal psychology to forge this path by offering a comprehensive look at the American psyche.</p><p><em>Re-Visioning the American Psyche </em>examines the myths images and archetypal fantasies ingrained in the collective consciousness and unconscious in the United States. The volume tends to manifest symptoms in political institutions social conflicts and cultural movements. Using various interpretative processes—from psychoanalytic to literary and to participatory—it reflects on the meaning of democratic participation the psychological cost of wars and violence intergenerational trauma due to racism the emotional dimensions of political polarization deep-seated oppositional thinking in patriarchal structures frailty of the American Dream and more.</p><p>With its rich scope interdisciplinary scholarship and critical engagement with historical and current affairs this book will be of great interest to those in Jungian and depth psychology as well as sociology politics cultural studies and American studies. As a timely contribution with an international appeal it will engage readers who are invested in better understanding psychology’s capacity to respond to social cultural and political realities.</p>