Thomas Singer, MD, is a psychiatrist and Jungian psychoanalyst, practicing in San Francisco. He is the editor of a series of books exploring cultural complexes in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America. His interests include studying the relationship between myth, politics, and psyche in The Vision Thing and the Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche series. He is current president of National ARAS, an archive of symbolic imagery.

"Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America takes Jung’s concept of personal complexes and applies it to our national life. The result is a volume full of insight and passion. For anyone interested in the deep forces that shape our politics, this book is a "must read." Thomas Singer has spent 15 years developing the idea of cultural complexes, and now he and his collaborators have produced a work that will be read for a very long time." – Senator Bill Bradley"Nothing could be more timely or more timeless than this stunning collection by renowned international Jungian scholars and psychologists. Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America is a necessary book for today in making conscious what is paralyzing America, the cultural complexes that polarize. Yet the book also superbly articulates the deep psyche at work in any history or culture. This book is about discovering who we are collectively—the end of the illusion of individualism. Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America is informed and compassionate, inspired and carefully researched. It offers the reader Ariadne’s thread from the labyrinth of the United States as superpower to the possible future of planetary reciprocity—a cultural complex worth striving for."– Susan Rowland, author of Jung: A Feminist Revision (2002), The Ecocritical Psyche (2012), and Remembering Dionysus (2017), and professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute"With deep reflection, in sadness and in passion, here we have a polyvocal and acute political analysis as a range of brilliant writers addresses today’s endless American crises. This timely latest element in the canon of "cultural complexes" deserves to be widely read and appreciated outside the Jungian world as much as inside it. Never before have I seen "the spirit of the times" and "the spirit of the depths" woven together so convincingly. The book is a tremendous example of pluralistic writing. I read it as a kind of conversation, yet one that does not have to have a settled endpoint of agreement. Singer’s lifework on what he has called an "inner sociology" enables him to perform as a sublime host or chorus master."– Andrew Samuels, former Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex, and author of The Political Psyche"America’s Puritan roots have endowed its political traditions with fiercer ethics than we see in Europe. We have only to consider the excessive projections of "evil" during the blind aggressiveness of McCarthyism and in the cruelty of the current Trumpian era, all of it contributing to what Richard Hofstadter documented in The Paranoid Style in American Politics. The demonization of one’s political opponents has certainly occurred in many places, but more often as a result of tyrannies, not in the context of a supposedly mature democratic system. In this century, Thomas Singer has already contributed greatly to the psychological fertilization of politics, but this present book by Singer and his contributors is the most timely of them all."– Luigi Zoja, author of Paranoia: The Madness that Makes History (2011) and The Father: Historical, Psychological and Cultural Considerations (2001)

• Acknowledgements; Introduction by Thomas Singer; Preface by Jules Cashford; Part 1: Meta Themes In American Cultural Complexes; Chapter 1: Here’s Johnny! American Carnival in Modern Times by Stefano Carta; Chapter 2: The Purity Comples by Betty Sue Flowers; Chapter 3: The Cultural Complex and Addiction to Dominion: Psychic Evolution Cannot Be Thwarted by Jerome Bernstein; Chapter 4: Wrestling with our Angels: Inner and Outer Democracy in America Under the Shadow of Donald Trump by Donald E. Kalsched; Chapter 5: America Exists! Reflections on My American Cultural Complex by Joerg Rasche; Chapter 6: The Second Goya by Craig San Roque; Part 2: Specific Cultural Complexes; Race; Chapter 7: Every Voice, Every Vote Count: Challenges to a Multicultural Democracy in the Shadow of American Political Economy and American Cultural Complexes by Alan G. Vaughan; Chapter 8: The Racial Complex by Fanny Brewster; Chapter 9: Crime and Punishment in America: A Cultural Black Hole by Ronald Schenk; Gender; Chapter 10: The Body Blow of Trumpism: Shame and Fear as a Cultural Complex by Sharon Heath; Chapter 11: Walt Whitman on Religious Liberty, Marriage Equality, and the American Cultural Complex by Steven Herrmann; Immigration; Chapter 12: An Immigrant’s Transit: From a Multicultural Complex to a Multicultural Mind by Lynn Alicia Franco; National Character; Chapter 13: Our Divisible Nation: In the Grip of an Alpha Narcissistic Complex by Jacqueline J. West; Chapter 14: The Child in 21st-Century American Film by John Beebe; Environment; Chapter 15: A Tale of Two Cultures: Climate Change & American Complexes by Jeffrey T. Kiehl; Healthcare; Chapter 16: Bio Medicine: Its Cultural Complex and Its Dispiriting by Richard M. Timms, MD; Index

Thomas Singer, MD, is a psychiatrist and Jungian psychoanalyst, practicing in San Francisco. He is the editor of a series of books exploring cultural complexes in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America. His interests include studying the relationship between myth, politics, and psyche in The Vision Thing and the Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche series. He is current president of National ARAS, an archive of symbolic imagery.

"Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America takes Jung’s concept of personal complexes and applies it to our national life. The result is a volume full of insight and passion. For anyone interested in the deep forces that shape our politics, this book is a "must read." Thomas Singer has spent 15 years developing the idea of cultural complexes, and now he and his collaborators have produced a work that will be read for a very long time." – Senator Bill Bradley"Nothing could be more timely or more timeless than this stunning collection by renowned international Jungian scholars and psychologists. Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America is a necessary book for today in making conscious what is paralyzing America, the cultural complexes that polarize. Yet the book also superbly articulates the deep psyche at work in any history or culture. This book is about discovering who we are collectively—the end of the illusion of individualism. Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America is informed and compassionate, inspired and carefully researched. It offers the reader Ariadne’s thread from the labyrinth of the United States as superpower to the possible future of planetary reciprocity—a cultural complex worth striving for."– Susan Rowland, author of Jung: A Feminist Revision (2002), The Ecocritical Psyche (2012), and Remembering Dionysus (2017), and professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute"With deep reflection, in sadness and in passion, here we have a polyvocal and acute political analysis as a range of brilliant writers addresses today’s endless American crises. This timely latest element in the canon of "cultural complexes" deserves to be widely read and appreciated outside the Jungian world as much as inside it. Never before have I seen "the spirit of the times" and "the spirit of the depths" woven together so convincingly. The book is a tremendous example of pluralistic writing. I read it as a kind of conversation, yet one that does not have to have a settled endpoint of agreement. Singer’s lifework on what he has called an "inner sociology" enables him to perform as a sublime host or chorus master."– Andrew Samuels, former Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex, and author of The Political Psyche"America’s Puritan roots have endowed its political traditions with fiercer ethics than we see in Europe. We have only to consider the excessive projections of "evil" during the blind aggressiveness of McCarthyism and in the cruelty of the current Trumpian era, all of it contributing to what Richard Hofstadter documented in The Paranoid Style in American Politics. The demonization of one’s political opponents has certainly occurred in many places, but more often as a result of tyrannies, not in the context of a supposedly mature democratic system. In this century, Thomas Singer has already contributed greatly to the psychological fertilization of politics, but this present book by Singer and his contributors is the most timely of them all."– Luigi Zoja, author of Paranoia: The Madness that Makes History (2011) and The Father: Historical, Psychological and Cultural Considerations (2001)

• Acknowledgements; Introduction by Thomas Singer; Preface by Jules Cashford; Part 1: Meta Themes In American Cultural Complexes; Chapter 1: Here’s Johnny! American Carnival in Modern Times by Stefano Carta; Chapter 2: The Purity Comples by Betty Sue Flowers; Chapter 3: The Cultural Complex and Addiction to Dominion: Psychic Evolution Cannot Be Thwarted by Jerome Bernstein; Chapter 4: Wrestling with our Angels: Inner and Outer Democracy in America Under the Shadow of Donald Trump by Donald E. Kalsched; Chapter 5: America Exists! Reflections on My American Cultural Complex by Joerg Rasche; Chapter 6: The Second Goya by Craig San Roque; Part 2: Specific Cultural Complexes; Race; Chapter 7: Every Voice, Every Vote Count: Challenges to a Multicultural Democracy in the Shadow of American Political Economy and American Cultural Complexes by Alan G. Vaughan; Chapter 8: The Racial Complex by Fanny Brewster; Chapter 9: Crime and Punishment in America: A Cultural Black Hole by Ronald Schenk; Gender; Chapter 10: The Body Blow of Trumpism: Shame and Fear as a Cultural Complex by Sharon Heath; Chapter 11: Walt Whitman on Religious Liberty, Marriage Equality, and the American Cultural Complex by Steven Herrmann; Immigration; Chapter 12: An Immigrant’s Transit: From a Multicultural Complex to a Multicultural Mind by Lynn Alicia Franco; National Character; Chapter 13: Our Divisible Nation: In the Grip of an Alpha Narcissistic Complex by Jacqueline J. West; Chapter 14: The Child in 21st-Century American Film by John Beebe; Environment; Chapter 15: A Tale of Two Cultures: Climate Change & American Complexes by Jeffrey T. Kiehl; Healthcare; Chapter 16: Bio Medicine: Its Cultural Complex and Its Dispiriting by Richard M. Timms, MD; Index

Thomas Singer, MD, is a psychiatrist and Jungian psychoanalyst, practicing in San Francisco. He is the editor of a series of books exploring cultural complexes in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America. His interests include studying the relationship between myth, politics, and psyche in The Vision Thing and the Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche series. He is current president of National ARAS, an archive of symbolic imagery.

"Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America takes Jung’s concept of personal complexes and applies it to our national life. The result is a volume full of insight and passion. For anyone interested in the deep forces that shape our politics, this book is a "must read." Thomas Singer has spent 15 years developing the idea of cultural complexes, and now he and his collaborators have produced a work that will be read for a very long time." – Senator Bill Bradley"Nothing could be more timely or more timeless than this stunning collection by renowned international Jungian scholars and psychologists. Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America is a necessary book for today in making conscious what is paralyzing America, the cultural complexes that polarize. Yet the book also superbly articulates the deep psyche at work in any history or culture. This book is about discovering who we are collectively—the end of the illusion of individualism. Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America is informed and compassionate, inspired and carefully researched. It offers the reader Ariadne’s thread from the labyrinth of the United States as superpower to the possible future of planetary reciprocity—a cultural complex worth striving for."– Susan Rowland, author of Jung: A Feminist Revision (2002), The Ecocritical Psyche (2012), and Remembering Dionysus (2017), and professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute"With deep reflection, in sadness and in passion, here we have a polyvocal and acute political analysis as a range of brilliant writers addresses today’s endless American crises. This timely latest element in the canon of "cultural complexes" deserves to be widely read and appreciated outside the Jungian world as much as inside it. Never before have I seen "the spirit of the times" and "the spirit of the depths" woven together so convincingly. The book is a tremendous example of pluralistic writing. I read it as a kind of conversation, yet one that does not have to have a settled endpoint of agreement. Singer’s lifework on what he has called an "inner sociology" enables him to perform as a sublime host or chorus master."– Andrew Samuels, former Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex, and author of The Political Psyche"America’s Puritan roots have endowed its political traditions with fiercer ethics than we see in Europe. We have only to consider the excessive projections of "evil" during the blind aggressiveness of McCarthyism and in the cruelty of the current Trumpian era, all of it contributing to what Richard Hofstadter documented in The Paranoid Style in American Politics. The demonization of one’s political opponents has certainly occurred in many places, but more often as a result of tyrannies, not in the context of a supposedly mature democratic system. In this century, Thomas Singer has already contributed greatly to the psychological fertilization of politics, but this present book by Singer and his contributors is the most timely of them all."– Luigi Zoja, author of Paranoia: The Madness that Makes History (2011) and The Father: Historical, Psychological and Cultural Considerations (2001)

• Acknowledgements; Introduction by Thomas Singer; Preface by Jules Cashford; Part 1: Meta Themes In American Cultural Complexes; Chapter 1: Here’s Johnny! American Carnival in Modern Times by Stefano Carta; Chapter 2: The Purity Comples by Betty Sue Flowers; Chapter 3: The Cultural Complex and Addiction to Dominion: Psychic Evolution Cannot Be Thwarted by Jerome Bernstein; Chapter 4: Wrestling with our Angels: Inner and Outer Democracy in America Under the Shadow of Donald Trump by Donald E. Kalsched; Chapter 5: America Exists! Reflections on My American Cultural Complex by Joerg Rasche; Chapter 6: The Second Goya by Craig San Roque; Part 2: Specific Cultural Complexes; Race; Chapter 7: Every Voice, Every Vote Count: Challenges to a Multicultural Democracy in the Shadow of American Political Economy and American Cultural Complexes by Alan G. Vaughan; Chapter 8: The Racial Complex by Fanny Brewster; Chapter 9: Crime and Punishment in America: A Cultural Black Hole by Ronald Schenk; Gender; Chapter 10: The Body Blow of Trumpism: Shame and Fear as a Cultural Complex by Sharon Heath; Chapter 11: Walt Whitman on Religious Liberty, Marriage Equality, and the American Cultural Complex by Steven Herrmann; Immigration; Chapter 12: An Immigrant’s Transit: From a Multicultural Complex to a Multicultural Mind by Lynn Alicia Franco; National Character; Chapter 13: Our Divisible Nation: In the Grip of an Alpha Narcissistic Complex by Jacqueline J. West; Chapter 14: The Child in 21st-Century American Film by John Beebe; Environment; Chapter 15: A Tale of Two Cultures: Climate Change & American Complexes by Jeffrey T. Kiehl; Healthcare; Chapter 16: Bio Medicine: Its Cultural Complex and Its Dispiriting by Richard M. Timms, MD; Index