ABSTRACT
The author underlines that C. G. Jung’s work on complex theory was an important foundational part of early analytical psychology. Brewster adds that we have since learned a great deal about parental complexes, guilt complexes, even our money complexes. It might be one of our American collective shadow issues that we have ignored racial complexes, while we unconsciously continue to engage one another more deeply in antagonistic racial relations. There are questions about racial complexes and associated elements such as dissociative trauma that are yet to be explored as related to our multicultural American collective and Jungian psychology. This paper discusses American racial complexes and the possible resulting characteristics of dissociation that may be a result and/or feature of such complexes. It seeks to develop a better understanding of the psychic nature of racial complexes, dissociation and archetypal influences.
