Many Americans today feel overwhelmed and overburdened by the relentless flood of conflicting narratives surging through society.\u00a0 Every headline, opinion page, or dinner-table discussion seems to throb with urgency, distortion, and division.\u00a0 The more implausible the story, the more powerfully it grips the psyche.\u00a0 We are living in a crazy-making environment.<\/p>\n
Here is an unsettling truth: much of what we are reacting to isn\u2019t coming from real people at all.\u00a0 It comes instead from cultural complexes\u2014impersonal forces made up of raw emotion, inherited trauma, and mythic stories.\u00a0 These complexes often masquerade as individuals, with people acting like puppet-like mouthpieces of their narratives. \u00a0My new work,\u00a0A\u00a0Field Guide to American Cultural Complexes: The Battleground of the Splintered American Psyche<\/em>,\u00a0examines these truths.<\/p>\n In this lecture, I will place this work in the context of Jung’s original work on personal complexes.\u00a0 Examples from my seven-volume Routledge series on cultural complexes\u00a0from around the world will be used to elaborate these ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many Americans today feel overwhelmed and overburdened by the relentless flood of conflicting narratives surging through society.\u00a0 Every headline, opinion page, or dinner-table discussion seems to throb with urgency, distortion, and division.\u00a0 The more implausible the story, the more powerfully it grips the psyche.\u00a0 We are living in a crazy-making environment. Here is an unsettling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":125090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[542],"mec_speaker":[1968],"class_list":["post-125089","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-webinar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n