ABSTRACT
Many times what has been written about by African American authors–Ralph Ellison, for example, in Invisible Man; or Richard Wright in Black Boy–may be aspects of Black and White racial complexes. In addressing the racial complex from an African American cultural perspective through the writings of Ellison and Wright, there is the necessary White complex to consider. C. G. Jung says that each one has the racial complex of the other–White and Black complexes exist in the opposite of the Other. The activation of a White racial complex led to the rise of individuals asserting power and control in an ego-conscious manner. The Opposites of group racial conflict became alive and at work on a more conscious level as Americans continued into the decade of the 1960s and early 1970s. The recognition of personal complexes, including racial ones and the Shadow, can make up a great deal of the psychological work for changing consciousness.
