Diversity: A Jungian Perspective
This lecture sets the issue of cultural diversity in a slightly different context from that of social justice. While acknowledging the importance of identifying and redressing inequities, Dr. Hodges will follow Jung in approaching this topic from a place of introspection, with less attention to the daily news than to the panorama of history.
The idea of a “racial” complex is presented, both its archetypal core and different ways in which it can manifest in each of us as individuals. Looking beneath the easily observed social and political problems associated with racism, this lecture will explore psychological disturbances which it tends to create - for those who assume racial superiority as well as for those placed in an inferior position. Jung’s sometimes dated ideas on this topic are considered, with an eye to sorting the wheat from the chaff. And behind all of this is the question: How shall we work with our racial complexes in the process of individuation?
This lecture sets the issue of cultural diversity in a slightly different context from that of social justice. While acknowledging the importance of identifying and redressing inequities, Dr. Hodges will follow Jung in approaching this topic from a place of introspection, with less attention to the daily news than to the panorama of history.
The idea of a “racial” complex is presented, both its archetypal core and different ways in which it can manifest in each of us as individuals. Looking beneath the easily observed social and political problems associated with racism, this lecture will explore psychological disturbances which it tends to create - for those who assume racial superiority as well as for those placed in an inferior position. Jung’s sometimes dated ideas on this topic are considered, with an eye to sorting the wheat from the chaff. And behind all of this is the question: How shall we work with our racial complexes in the process of individuation?