ABSTRACT
A Jungian interpretation of the march involves the psychodynamic interpretation of psyche’s development when projected onto the political process of the American democratic political system. Specifically, this chapter analyzes how the process of individuation in culture, or the archetypal Self’s unfolding occurred in America through the implementation of a nonviolent ethos into a country suffering from a moral developmental crisis. The chapter demonstrates how the civil rights marchers, carrying the nation’s emerging consciousness, implemented nonviolent tactics and philosophy, and subsequently revealing the nation’s moral problem of racism, and the greater hypocrisy contained within the constitution. Nonviolence and its implementation is the metaphor for psychic processes within the individual as the individual psychologically and spiritually develops consciousness. Activism provides the metaphor for the individuation process within the individual and the greater culture.
