- 288 pages
- English
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About this book
Cultural Complexes in Australia: Placing Psyche is the first in a series of books that will explore the notion of cultural complexes in a variety of settings around the world.
The continent of Australia is the focus of this inaugural volume in which the contributors elucidate how the unique geography and peoples of Australia interact and interpenetrate to create the particular "mindscapes" of the Australian psyche. While the cultural complexes of Australia are explored with a keen eye to the specificity of place, history, context, and content, at the same time it becomes obvious that these cultural complexes emerge out of an archetypal background that is not just Australian but global.
This volume shows how cultural complex theory itself mediates between the particularity of place and the universality of archetypal patterns.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Maps
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The Contact Zone as Imaginal Space: The Nullarbor in the Non-indigenous Australian Imagination
- 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, Land, and Water
- 5 Finding the Fish: Memory, Displacement Anxiety, Legitimacy, and Identity: The Legacy of Interlocking Traumatic Histories in Post-colonial Australia
- 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