Jungian Reflections on Systemic Racism

Members of an American Psychoanalytic Community on Training, Practice and Inclusivity

Christopher Jerome Jerome Carter, Tiffany Houck, Christopher Jerome Carter, Tiffany Houck, Christopher Jerome Carter, Tiffany Houck

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032318035
• eBook ISBN: 9781000891065
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Movements in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Jungian Reflections on Systemic Racism is a unique contribution of Jungian analysts and analysts-in-training who provide individual perspectives and approaches to promoting greater inclusivity in analytical theory, training and practice.

This book examines issues of racism through intrapsychic, interpersonal, and archetypal lenses. Drawing from the specificity and ingenuity of Jungian psychoanalysis, the authors provide personal narratives, clinical vignettes, and theoretical perspectives that exemplify ways of comprehending and furthering the work of anti-racism. The editors assert that without deeper exploration of our theories, distinguishing between the theory itself and the theorist's unconscious biases, our clinical paradigms unconsciously align and thus perhaps promote an attitude of white supremacy in psychoanalytic training programs and practices. Without claiming to reflect the official view of any particular psychoanalytic community, it utilizes Jung's analytic paradigm to offer insight into the dynamics of the cultural complex of racism from a depth psychological perspective.

Jungian Reflections on Systemic Racism is an important resource for psychoanalytic students, trainees, supervisors, and practitioners, as well as for clinicians, medical professionals, social workers, mental health professionals, sociologists, and anyone interested in the wide impact of the unscientific construct of 'race'.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Notes on the Contributors
• Preface by Harry Wells Fogarty
• Introduction
• 1 Time for Space at the Table: An African American-Native American psychoanalyst's first-hand reflections. A call for the IAAP to publicly denounce (but not erase) the White supremacist writings of C.G. Jung
• Appendix: A Call for the International Association for Analytical Psychology to Take Corrective Actions, Publicly Denunciating (But Not Erasing) the White Supremacist Writings of Carl Gustav Jung
• 2 The Paradox of the Primitive and Jung's Relation to ‘Negroes’
• 3 The Smoking Mirror: An archetypal perspective on the color black
• 4 On Failings
• 5 From Ghost to Ancestor: Transforming Jung's racial complex
• 6 The Whiteness Complex: Breaking the spell
• 7 The Sunken Place: Silence as the propagation of toxic whiteness
• 8 Reparative Transgression: A psychoanalytic institute reckons – and does not reckon – with its own racism
• Index