ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the specific Mexican-American complex from an analytical psychological perspective, keeping in mind the question: where does this cultural complex stem from? The creation of the myth of Aztlan was a psychological need that compensated the lack of rootedness and home. There is a famous saying within the Mexican-American community which expresses this sentiment: ‘we are neither from here, nor from there’; that is, they don’t belong or feel at home neither in the US nor in Mexico. To the psychological undifferentiated person who remains unconscious of his shadow, there will always be a need to make enemies. The chapter looks at the contemporary psychological implications of colonial trauma originating from the ancestral past of Mexican-Americans. Instead, all of the interviewees reported feeling accepted in American society and self-identified as American; in turn, at least psychologically, rejecting or going against the primal mother, Malintzin.
