Workshop: American Cultural Complexes & the Splintered American Psyche
October 10 @ 10:00 am - 1:30 pm PDT
In this interactive workshop, Dr. Singer will delve more deeply into the autonomous nature of cultural complexes and how they can trigger, possess, distort, and clash like mythic titans within the group and individual psyche, vying for the soul of the individual and the soul of the nation.
Using material and images from his book, A Field Guide to American Cultural Complexes: The Battleground of the Splintered American Psyche, we will explore several American cultural complexes, including the MAGA Cultural Complex, the Military-Industrial Cultural Complex, the American Consumerism Cultural Complex, the American Narcissism Cultural Complex, and the Melting Pot Cultural Complex.
The workshop will focus on how these complexes live within both the individual and group psyche, with ample discussion of what we can do about them and how they change—or fail to change—over time. One of the greatest challenges we face is how to remain a real person and avoid being absorbed into a cultural complex as our primary identity.
Related Lecture: American Cultural Complexes & the Splintered American Psyche
Thomas Singer, M.D., is a psychiatrist and Jungian psychoanalyst based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Trained at Yale Medical School, Dartmouth Medical School, and the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, he writes and lectures internationally on symbolism and cultural complexes. Singer has edited a multivolume series mapping cultural complexes across regions, including Australia, Latin America, Europe, the United States, and East Asia. He has also co-edited works exploring myth, city life, and the contemporary psyche. He is closely connected with ARAS, the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism, and has been a prominent voice linking collective imagery to psychological life. His new book is A Field Guide to American Cultural Complexes: The Battleground of the Splintered American Psyche.
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