ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the importance of founding a distinctive Jungian political psychology that could, for example, be used to help the political Left meet the rhetoric and aggression of the political Right. As San Francisco Jungian Arthur Colman writes: 'in the Jungian world the individual psyche is 'sacred' and the group psyche is 'profane'. The divide between the public and private experience is culturally dissociative, which appears symptomatically in the gap between politics and psychology. In order to provide treatment for this condition, we can found a distinctive Jungian political psychology and cultivate a new type of psychological practitioner who takes responsibility for studying and 'treating' this condition. The time is right to look at the nineteenth- and twentieth-century retreat from the public sphere as a cultural complex that psychology has accidentally perpetuated and now has the responsibility for learning how to treat and transform.
