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ISBN 10: 0367192772 

ISBN 13: 9780367192778

Author: Ipek S. Burnett

In A Jungian Inquiry into the American Psyche: The Violence of Innocence, Ipek Burnett’s penetrating cultural criticism enriched with psychoanalytical and Jungian insight offers a timely interrogation of national consciousness in the United States. Through evocative storytelling, Burnett unpacks the images and myths that run deep in the American psyche—from that of the New World, the city upon a hill, to the Manifest Destiny, the melting pot, and the pursuit of happiness. Against this backdrop, she investigates the vicious cycles of innocence and violence that have dominated American history and continue to reinforce systematic oppression in America, evident in racial and economic inequality, xenophobia, materialism, and more. Burnett’s thought-provoking analysis exposes the ways in which psychological defenses such as historical amnesia, projection, denial, and dissociation work on a collective level, helping America avoid a confrontation with these violent truths of its past and present circumstances, and its national character. With its seamless multidisciplinary approach and revealing insight, this book will be of great interest to psychologists, scholars, and students of Jungian and post-Jungian thought, depth psychology, and cultural and American studies. Eloquent and accessible, it will engage readers who strive to be self-reflective, well-informed global citizens.

Table of contents:

1 The Columbus fantasy

Paradise

Savage

Slavery and slaughter

Illusion

Ghosts

The legacy

Remembering

2 Mythopoetic politics

A city upon a hill

The chosen

The independent

The Manifest

The redeemer

The vulnerable

The responsibility

3 The American dream, the royal road

Rags to riches

The wall of affluence

Melting pot

The color line

Vigilance

4 The pursuit of happiness and its discontents

The happiness principle

The great promise

Excess and emptiness

The spectacle

Depression

Psychic numbing and beyond

Conclusion: From hubris to humility

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