ABSTRACT
Pulp Fiction is a postmodern film directed and co-authored by Quentin Tarantino. The film centers around the lives of several small-time criminals living in the contemporary underworld of Los Angeles. Jung’s conception of individuation involves the relationship between the ego and the Self, between the conscious and the unconscious. In the context of alchemy and individuation, therefore, it is significant that the character in the film who begins the process of individuation is the man with the black skin, and that the character who is decapitated is also black. Tarantino illustrates the interplay of opposites throughout the film. Pulp Fiction’s characters and action provide an excellent opportunity to see several of Jung’s guiding principles of individuation illustrated, although a review has addressed only three. The elements of individuation that come alive in the film are the very ones the people need to become conscious.
