The racial complex : a Jungian perspective on culture and race

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The nature of complexes
	The complex in psyche
	Jung’s Theory of Complexes
3. The racial complex
	Common complexes
	The racial complex
	Dissociation in the s/Self relationship
	In community
4. Childhood: The shaping of psychological complexes
	Early trauma
	The shaping of racial complexes in children
	African American children and racial prejudice
5. A cultural constellation
	Historical constellations
6. Archetype, shadow, complex
	Archetype
	Shadow
	Complex
7. Culture and “race”
	What is culture?
	What is racism?
8. Cultural trauma and the racial complex
	Cultural trauma
	Opposites in the complex
9. Transference and countertransference
10. Emergence from grievance to grief: The literary arts
	Journey as immigrant—journey as slave
	The Other: emergence from a literary shadow
	The emerging self and the struggle of the ego
	Grievance to grief: from loss to art
11. American cinema: Get Out
	The alternative
12. The paradox of race and racism
	The paradox of race and racism
13. Healing cultural and racial trauma
Closing reflections
Bibliography
Index