On the Racist Nature of the Psyche

Abstract

The title of this article, “On the Racist Nature of the Psyche,” is a play on the title of Jung’s seminal paper, “On the Nature of the Psyche,” in which he sets out his most complete theoretical description of how he viewed the workings of the psyche. The author describes Jung’s view of the psyche and discusses some astrological imagery related to the psychology of the Age of Pisces, which Jung addressed extensively in Aion. The lenses provided by both of those perspectives are then used to examine some history related to England and the very early American colonial period. This is the time when the institution of slavery began to take hold on the North American mainland; exploring that is useful relative to looking at our racial complex. Finally, the author comments on the imagery and psychology of the current, or sometime soon coming, Age of Aquarius.