C. G. Jung, S. P. Huntington, and the Search for Civilization

Abstract

AbstractJohn Dourley, “C.G. Jung, S.P. Huntington, and the Search for Civilization,” The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, 2006, 25:4, 29-48. The paper appreciatively presents Samuel P. Huntington's thesis that future wars will be fought between civilizations bonded by differing religions. It goes on to show an extensive initial agreement between Huntington and Carl Jung, whose ideas of participation mystique, representations collectives, the “isms” and the collective shadow jointly contend that civilizations are bonded by archetypal powers, the same agencies that generate religious bonding. Consequently the more archetypally based and so forceful the bonding, the less conscious and so less morally sensitive are those bonded in relation to the differently bonded. But Jung goes beyond Huntington in contending that the psyche itself moves to a conscious and historical actualization of human commonalities that Huntington acknowledges in passing as the distant solution to the clash of civilization...