1st Edition

Cultural Complexes of Latin America Voices of the South

Edited By Thomas Singer Copyright 2024
232 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Cultural Complexes of Latin America: South and the Soul  explores the theory and embodied reality that cultural complexes are powerful determinants in the attitudes, behaviour, and emotional life of individuals and groups. The contributing authors, all from several Latin American countries, present compelling historical, anthropological, sociological, mythological, psychological, and... Read more

Acknowledgements

Latin America

Introduction

Thomas Singer

Part 1: Brazil

1. South and the Soul

Gustavo Barcellos

2. Cordial Racism: Race as a Cultural Complex

Walter Boechat

3. Non Ducor, Duco, I am not led, I lead

Denise G. Ramos

4. São Paulo and the Cultural Complexes of the City: Seeing Through Graffiti

Liliana Liviano Wahba

5. The Cultural Skin in Latin America

Brain Feldman 

Part 2: Chile

6. At the Far End of the World: Exploring the Chilean Cultural Isolation Complex

Claudia Beas and Javiera Sánchez

Part 3: Colombia 

7. In the Shadow of the Virgin Mary

Maria Claudia Munévar

Part 4: Mexico

8. The Right to Exist: Mexico's Spiritual Colonization 

Jacqueline Gerson

9. The Broken Bridge: Exploring the Mythic Core of Mexican Cultural Complexes

Claude Juvin and Rocio Ruiz

Part 5: Uruguay

10. The Official Story of Uruguay: Cultural Complexes Underlying What Was and Was Not Included

Pilar Amezaga and Pablo Gelsi

Part 6: Venezuela

11. The Gringo Complex

Áxel Capriles M.

12. Latin America: A Region Split by its Cultural Complexes

Eduardo Carvallo

13. Venezuela: Cultural Complexes in Contemporary Context

Margarita Méndez

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.