The Shadow in America: Reclaiming the Soul of a Nation - Softcover

Jeremiah Abrams (Editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1882591178 ISBN 13: 9781882591176

Publisher: Nataraj Pub, 1994

Synopsis

The compelling message in The Shadow in America is that we stand on the brink of social change as optimistic as at any time in our history. Jeremiah Abrams takes us the next step beyond his highly successful Meeting the Shadow by providing us with firm ground upon which to realize the dream beneath our national shadow, a dream which has been struggling to be born for more than two hundred years. The writers in this collection literally strip away the darkness that hides our country's soul. They address how our national shadow affects us individually and collectively -- in love, relationships, family life, sexuality, politics, economics, religion, race relations, and addictions -- and how each of us can realize the dark powers at work in the American psyche, and in so doing, transform our lives.

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About the Author:

Steeped in the mythopoetic tradition of Jungian psychology, Jeremiah Abrams, LCSW, MPC, has worked as a therapist since 1972, teaching, training, consulting and writing. He is a master dream analyst and a leading authority on the human Shadow. Jeremiah’s books include Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature (Tarcher), Reclaiming the Inner Child (Tarcher), and The Shadow in America: Reclaiming the Soul of a Nation (Nataraj). He is Director of the Mt. Vision Institute, and a frequent teacher at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.

From Booklist:

America: a democracy with rampant racism, an egalitarian society with hordes of homeless, a frontier land that destroys its own resources. Why can't this New World live up to its own ideals? The answer, psychologists such as Thomas Moore and Sylvia Brinton Perera say, lies in the very brightness of those ideals, which cast so deep a shadow. Applying C. G. Jung's concept of the repressed and rejected personal shadow to the nation as a whole, the 10 authors included in this collection suggest that rather than struggle more and more frantically to eliminate evidences of the national shadow, we should attend to the integration of ideals with reality. This is complex material, but clearly written and most provocative. Pat Monaghan

About this edition

• Publisher: Nataraj Pub
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1882591178
• ISBN 13: 9781882591176
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274