ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 sought to surface Jung's thought on the role of archetypal energies in the formation of cultures and the apparent inevitability of the projection of negative shadow onto differently bonded cultures as the basis of civilizational con¯ict between them. It surfaced what might be called a Jungian law governing the bonding of civilizations, namely, the greater the archetypal cohesion uniting a given community the less conscious and so morally responsible are its members. More, the contention that archetypal energies are the bonding power working all cultural and civilizational cohesion and differentiation identi®es these forces as, at bottom, religious forces or their secular equivalents providing their societies with the sense of ultimacy and substance needed for their collective identity. In this respect Jung shares much in common with Paul Tillich when the latter writes, ``culture is the form of religion, religion is the substance of culture'' (Tillich 1963: 158). With Tillich this substance could be explicitly religious as in the Middle Ages or secular in its modern variation. His point and Jung's is that whatever dominant unites a culture functions as its religion in whatever guise such unifying power may assume. Jung's thought on this issue does not move to the possibility of a society, culture or civilization not united by some archetypal power. Rather it forces the question of the possibility of communal bonding that would not need to demonize or demean the other as an essential element in its own self-understanding as community. Is there a possibility of an archetypal grounding of a culture divested of the urge to convert or kill other such con®gurations? The concluding remarks in this chapter will address this question.
