1st Edition

Cultural Complexes in Australia Placing Psyche

Edited By Thomas Singer Copyright 2024
294 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

294 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

294 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Cultural Complexes in Australia: Placing Psyche is the first in a series of books that will explore the notion of cultural complexes in a variety of settings around the world. The continent of Australia is the focus of this inaugural volume in which the contributors elucidate how the unique geography and peoples of Australia interact and interpenetrate to create the particular "mindscapes" of... Read more

Acknowledgements 

Maps

Preface

Introduction 

1. The Nullarbor: Contact Zone as Imaginal Space

Peter Bishop

2. The Lemon Tree: A Conversation on Civilisation

Craig San Roque

3. The Rapture of "Girlshine": Land, Sacrifice, and Disavowal in Australian Cinema

Terrie Waddell

4. The Feeling of Salt, Water, and Land

Patricia Please

5. Finding the Fish: Memory, Displacement Anxiety, Legitimacy, and Identity

Amanda Dowd

6. Lost for Words: Embryonic Australia and a Psychic Narrative

David B. Russell

7. Language is My Second Skin: Speaking and Dreaming between Germany and Central Australia

Ute Eickelkamp

8. Taking It With Me: A South African's Cultural Complex in Aotearoa New Zealand

Chris Milton 

9. A Question of Fear

Alexis Wright

10. Sorry, It's Complex: Reflecting on the Apology to Indigenous Australians

Melinda Turner

11. The Australian Resistance to Individuation: Patrick White's Knotted Mandala

David Tacey

12. Sydney - "a city of truant disposition": East West 101 (the 2008-2011 Knapman Wyld Australina TV Series)

Craig San Roque with Kristine Wyld

Index

Biography

Thomas Singer, MD, is a psychiatrist and Jungian psychoanalyst who trained at Yale Medical School, Dartmouth Medical School, and the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He is the author of many books and articles that include a series of books on cultural complexes that have focused on Australia, Latin America, Europe, the United States, and Far East Asian countries, in addition to another series of books featuring Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche. He serves on the board of ARAS (Archive for Research into Archetypal Symbolism) and has served as co-editor of ARAS Connections for many years.