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Phantom Narratives

The Unseen Contributions of Culture to Psyche
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In Phantom Narratives: The Unseen Contributions of Culture to Psyche, Samuel Kimbles explores collective shadow processes, intergenerational transmission of group traumas, and social suffering as examples of how culture contributes to the formation of unseen, or phantom, narratives. These unseen narratives bundle together a number of themes around belonging, identity, identification, shadow, identity politics and otherness dynamics, and the universal striving for recognition. These dynamics enter the superego of our collective consciousness long before we are conscious of how they contribute to the shaping of our attitudes toward self and others, us and them (significantly contributing to scapegoat dynamics), emotionally generating fascination, possessiveness, disavowal and entitlement, and shame and fear. Also included in this book is an elaboration of Bion's work on groups in the context of thinking about cultural complexes that helps to flesh out how human groupings generate processes that support and hinder the development of consciousness in both individuals and groups. Kimbles argues that the awareness that can come through an understanding of cultural dynamics as manifested through cultural complexes and cultural phantoms in combination with the development of cultural consciousness can lead to an understanding of how groups can develop and individuals in groups can individuate.
Epigraph: "Interview with a Phantom: Cornelius Gurlitt Shares His Secrets" Introduction Chapter One: From Jung's Complex Theory to Cultural Complex theory and Phantom Narratives Chapter Two: Phantom Narratives Unseen but Present: Background Chapter Three: Phantoms Travel: The Journey to African-Cultural Melancholia in Black and White Chapter Four: Cultural Complexes and Collective Shadow Processes Chapter Five: Cultural Complexes and the Transmission of Group Traumas in Everyday Life Chapter Six: Social Suffering through Cultural Mourning, Cultural Melancholia, and Cultural Complexes Chapter Seven: A Cultural Complex Operating in the Overlap of Clinical and Cultural Space Chapter Eight: Chaos and Fragmentation in Analytic Training Institutes Bibliography
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