In the Introduction to his edited collection Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America, Tom Singer writes, “We forge the American soul in our struggle with cultural complexes. In the political arena, cultural complexes seem mostly to generate heat, division, hatred; they are inflammatory and polarizing; they usually end in a stalemate without any resolution, only to recur in the next election or the next generation; sometimes they are ignored or kept unconscious for decades; occasionally they can be worked out slowly in engagement, compromise, reconciliation, and healing after generations of recurring battle. In short, they behave like complexes.” He goes on to suggest that the initial task of understanding what we are doing with our cultural complexes is to first ask, “What are our primary cultual complexes?”
I would love to have you join me in reading a selection of articles by contemporary Jungian analysts asking this very question.
