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. It considers the impact of intergenerational traumas on the cultural unconscious, with its multiple group dynamics, identities, conflicts and polarizations.
Samuel L. Kimbles demonstrates the many ways that our internal lives are organized and patterned by cultural complexes, and how individual experiences are narrated by archetypal story formations, or phantom narratives. This book presents examples of this phenomenon in the context of both cultural and natural catastrophes, as well as expressions of uncanny phenomena, with a particular focus on the experiences of Black people. Kimbles explains how these emotional dynamics can constitute transitional spaces or holding containers, allowing psychological work with these issues at both individual and group levels, and offering opportunities for healing.
Intergenerational Complexes in Analytical Psychology
will be essential reading for analytical psychologists, Jungian psychotherapists, and other professionals seeking to understand the impact of intergenerational trauma on individuals and groups. It will also be relevant to the work of academics and scholars of Jungian studies, sociology, trauma studies, politics, and social justice.
1. Working with cultural phantoms through cultural complexes
2. Floating
worlds and their phantoms in the aftermath of social catastrophes
3. Phantoms
at the cultural level
4. Unbearable things, unseen
5. Phantom narratives and
the uncanny in cultural life: psychic presences and their shadows
6. Between
the world and me: where the wild things live
7. A framework for cultural
activism in the consulting room
8. James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: othering
through racialized intersubjectivities
Samuel L. Kimbles is a psychologist, Jungian analyst, member and former president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, and a clinical professor (VCF) in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He has a private practice in San Francisco and Santa Rosa, California, and works as a clinical consultant to organizations. In addition to lecturing and presenting widely, he has published several works on the cultural complex. Phantom Narratives: The Unseen Contributions of Culture to Psyche explores the themes of psyche in groups and society. This book Intergenerational Complexes in Analytical Psychology: The Suffering of Ghosts continues the processes of exploring the unconscious at the level of culture and groups.
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