From Vision to Folly in the American Soul Jung, Politics and Culture

In From Vision to Folly in the American Soul Thomas Singer collates his investigations into soul both in its personal and collective manifestations. With selected essays from twenty years of writing about American politics in the context of contemporary cultural trends, the book as a whole depicts an ongoing exploration of the complex relationships between individual and collective psyche in which reality, illusion, vision, and folly get all mixed up in overlapping political, cultural and psychological conflicts. This text is a valuable resource for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas, politics, sociology, and American studies as well as for anyone interested in the current state of the US.

1. A Personal Meditation on Politics and the American Soul 2. The Meshugana Complex: Notes from a Big Galoot Galut 3. Trump and the American Selfie: Archetypal Defenses of the Group Spirit 4. If Donald Trump Had a Selfie Stick, We’d All Be in the Picture 5. Op-Ed Pieces 6. The Analyst as a Citizen in the World 7. A Fool’s Guide to Folly

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.