Healing America's Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow - Paperback

by Reggie Marra (Author)

Both cautionary tale and love letter, Healing America's Narratives provides historical, psychological, cultural, and political context for the mood of America in the third decade of the twenty-first century. Looking through the lens of the country's collective Shadow-what we deny about ourselves and project onto others-the book lays bare the myths and denials that bring the United States to its current time and place. Relentless evidence supports the argument that America's national Shadow is dominated by unhealthy masculine energy and that it lacks and longs for integration with the healthy feminine. Marra explores increasingly comprehensive, inclusive, and complex perspectives on the larger scope of the American experiment. With clear language and letting no one off the hook, in each chapter he invites us to 're-vision' our cultural givens so that we may heal and integrate our individual and collective stories.