Cultural Complexes in Australia

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.

Acknowledgements Maps Preface Introduction 1. The Nullabor: Contact Zone as Imaginal Space 2. The Lemon Tree: A Conversation on Civilisation 3. The Rapture of "Girlshine": Land, Sacrifice, and Disavowal in Australian Cinema 4. The Feeling of Salt, Water, and Land 5. Finding the Fish: Memory, Displacement Anxiety, Legitimacy, and Identity 6. Lost for Words: Embryonic Australia and a Psychic Narrative 7. Language is My Second Skin: Speaking and Dreaming between Germany and Central Australia 8. Taking It With Me: A South African's Cultural Complex in Aotearoa New Zealand 9. A Question of Fear 10. Sorry, It's Complex: Reflecting on the Apology to Indigenous Australians 11. The Australian Resistance to Individuation: Patrick White's Knotted Mandala 12. Sydney - "a city of truant disposition": East West 101 (the 2008-2011 Knapman Wyld Australian TV Series) Index