ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|14 pages

The meshugana complex

Notes from a big galoot galut

chapter 3|33 pages

Trump and the American selfie

Archetypal defenses of the group spirit

chapter 5|8 pages

Op-ed pieces

chapter 6|18 pages

The analyst as a citizen in the world

chapter 7|23 pages

A Fool’s Guide to Folly