ABSTRACT
C.G. Jung argues that if a modern African-American dream contains exactly the same image as an ancient Greek myth, then the image is evidence of a collective, typically human, unconscious. To establish the existence of the collective unconscious, African-American dreams need not duplicate the particular content, or images, of Greek myths. Not only do Africans or African-Americans provide Jung with evidence for a typically human, rather than a "racial" collective unconscious, they also serve him as evidence of the social construction of insanity: To be crazy is a relative conception. Jung notes that in the dreams of white Americans images of African-Americans inevitably "play no small role as an expression of the inferior side of their personality." According to Jung, white Americans "go red" not only behaviorally but also physically, or anatomically. He asserts that, "in America, the skull and pelvis measurements of all the European races begin to indianize themselves in the second generation of immigrants."
