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How does an understanding of the Russian collective psychological field guide us in grasping the depths and complexities manifesting in the politics of the country, region, and world today? What is the cultural complex of Russian citizens: its peculiarities, its historical roots, the way it was recreated during the existence of the USSR, and reformulated after its collapse? We will consider the influence of the country’s territorial and geographical location on the formation of its cultural complex and describe the archetypal features incarnating the Great Mother and Great Father archetypes and their shadows. What is the psychic tension between this collective complex and the individual? This presentation will address these questions and themes, and will fit the national complex of Russia into the global dynamics of cultural complexes now present in the world. Natalia Pavlikova is a Jungian Analyst in Moscow. She is a clinical psychologist, graduate of the Psychology Department of Moscow State Universi
