ABSTRACT
The author’s premise based on the research of Carl Jung and her own is that a complex produces specific resulting observable behaviors. These behaviors are known within the Analytical Psychology clinical setting as constellations or activations. A cultural constellation relates to the eruption or activation of psychological processes on an individual or group level related specifically to the racial complex. Each complex has its own associations of personal unconscious and archetypal psychic material. When triggered by internal or external emotional events, the complex becomes constellated and one can observe specific behaviors connected to, in this case, race and ethnicity. American history shows that cultural constellations have taken the shape of an American Civil War fought over freeing American slaves, the Civil Rights Movement as well as Jim Crow segregation laws, the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Lives Matter Movement. These movements or political forces such as the Black Power Movement of the 1960s are examples of the racial complex constellated and displayed on a large cultural and collective level.
