Over the centuries the Western mind has come to an uncritical 
certainty that reality has two dimensions—one "out there" and 
another "here inside."

    In Soul and Culture Roberto Gambini shows that we are now 
entering an age in which what has been perceived as duality is now 
being revealed as one with two sides. Through haunting examples 
he reveals the connection between the inside and the outside, 
between soul and culture.

    From the front pages of newspapers, unsuspected archetypes 
leap out. The author walks us through São Paulo, Brazil, 
attempting to understand culture by what is happening to the trees 
that line the streets of his city. Through the dilapidated passages of 
an old, abandoned flour mill, he shows how medieval alchemy 
regenerates what has decayed both inside the psyche and outside in 
the city. He then takes us to the world of a child’s dreamlife and 
suggests the potential of what happens when education and 
analytical psychology collaborate.

    In simple terms, Gambini illustrates that history can no longer 
be separate from the psyche and challenges us to reconcile the 
outer and inner realms and think critically about what we call 
"reality."

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ROBERTO GAMBINI is a Jungian psychoanalyst who resides in 
São Paulo, Brazil. He is the author of three books including Indian 
Mirror—The Making of the Brazilian Soul.


Number Nine: Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical 
Psychology