Introduction

The Introduction to The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race provides the reader with a personal and professional view into the author’s intentions for her interests in identifying and writing about race within the context of a psychological complex. The Introduction gives the background of American cultural racial issues and the importance of exploring cultural complexes as a means to defining more closely how racial relations may be improved between various ethnicities. The historical reference to the work of C.G. Jung in his naming of a “Negro” and an “American” complex is the opening for deeper exploration of what has been named the racial complex by the author.