Binding: Paperback
Description: Intergenerational Complexes in Analytical Psychology: The Suffering of Ghosts draws attention to human suffering and how it relates to unacknowledged and unrecognized traumatic cultural histories that continue to haunt us in the present. The book shows the many ways that our internal lives are organized and patterned by both racial ethnic and national identities and personal experiences. This book shows how the cultural unconscious with its multiple group dynamics identities nationalities seething differences of conflicts polarizations and individual personalities are organized by cultural complexes and narrated by archetypal story formations which the author calls phantom narratives. The emotional dynamics generated constitute potential transitional spaces or holding containers that allow us to work with these issues psychologically at both the individual and group levels offering opportunities for healing. The chapters of the book provide numerous examples of the applications of these terms to natural and cultural catastrophes as well as expressions as uncanny phenomena. Intergenerational Complexes in Analytical Psychology is essential reading for analytical psychologists Jungian psychotherapists and other professionals seeking to understand the impact of intergenerational trauma on individuals and groups. It is also relevant to the work of academics and scholars of Jungian studies sociology trauma studies politics and social justice.
Title: Intergenerational Complexes In Analytical Psychology The Suffering Of Ghosts
Author(s): Kimbles Samuel L.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367513269
Pages: 96 Pages, 1 Tables, Black And White
Publication Date: 4/13/2021
Category: Trauma & Shock