Thomas Singer > Quotes

“reader might want to refer to the characteristics of complexes I detailed earlier. Each of the characteristics—autonomy, repetition, self-affirming memory, simplistic ideation, potent affect, and identity/belonging—can easily be found in how all of the themes listed here recur throughout history in the American psyche.”
― Thomas Singer, Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America: Myth, Psyche, and Politics

“cultural complexes filter and dictate through their own narrative the meaning, emotion, thought, memory, image, and behavior of inner and outer events.”
― Thomas Singer, Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America: Myth, Psyche, and Politics

“If we think of cultural complexes as essential components of the filtering system in our individual and group psyches, they function in the following way: Cultural complexes are autonomous. They have a life of their”
― Thomas Singer, Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America: Myth, Psyche, and Politics