ABSTRACT
This chapter will explore Jung's paradoxical relation to the primitive layer of psyche and his relation to ‘Negroes’ whom he locates there. He finds negative and positive aspects of this primitive level of psyche that exists in all of us and forms a vital taproot of the unconscious. When held together, these opposites of negative and positive responses to the primitive yield a paradoxical experience in Jung toward Blacks of both fear and kinship. Traveling to Africa to investigate how civilized Europeans looked from the perspective of the primitives, Jung discovered his psychology was being investigated, turning up both bias and images of Black figures within himself moving him toward wholeness. Implications are drawn for deepening teaching of analysts in training.
