ABSTRACT
C. G. Jung made two trips to America, both of which were to have an important effect on his life and work. In 1909 he travelled with Sigmund Freud, and in 1925 he went as an independent psychologist. The journeys proved to be profound encounters with culture and difference. Coming from an intellectual culture built upon the supreme value of reason, on the suppression of all that is irrational and unconscious, Jung feared that Enlightenment values had ripped through the psyche like a Big Game Hunter, stripping unknown lands of native life. Jung explores cultural difference by framing a meaningful connection between space and time. Such a strategy has flaws, in particular his identification of culture far away in space as being distant also in time, i.e., unsophisticated, compared to his own. Jung offers an epic historical narrative in order to frame and ground the ideas behind his proposed form of psychoanalysis, which he called analytical psychology.
