ABSTRACT
In Memories, Dreams, Reflections, C. G. Jung’s apparent view of the African is that he functions at a lower level of consciousness like that of animals. Africans being compared to animals with that same level of consciousness, as Jung experiences it through a look in their eyes, is racism at its worst. The weight of Jung’s own Shadow, extending from his time, is very heavy upon those of us of African descent and the American Jungian analytical community. In dream analysis, it is important to identify the conscious life of the dreamer. The archetype of Shadow, according to Jung, held not only parts of the personal unconscious but also aspects of the collective unconscious. The projected idea of a White collective Shadow that holds that African Americans were “happy” with their racially imprisoned condition can only be seen as a projection in service of a White subject.
