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Being white, being Jungian: implications of Jung’s encounter with the ‘non‐European’ other 1
Author(s) -
Johnson Jane
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of analytical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-5922
pISSN - 0021-8774
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5922.12619
Subject(s) - psyche , analytical psychology , dream , white (mutation) , psychoanalysis , identity (music) , psychology , racism , white supremacy , philosophy , sociology , aesthetics , psychotherapist , gender studies , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
This personal account charts the changing relationship to a Jungian identity arising from the interrelated processes of understanding the roots of the colonial and racial ideologies that underpin Jung’s thinking, and a developing awareness of what it means to be a white person in a system of racism that maintains white supremacy. This is illustrated with reference to the image of a black man appearing in the dream of the white author and with use of post‐Jungian thinking to critique the notion of an objective, non‐racial psyche.