ABSTRACT
In this chapter, my interest in the study of dreams guides my discussion. The practice and theoretical system of psychoanalysis, with dreamwork as a key component, has ingrained in it, a European creation of, and racial bias against, an Africanist “Other.” The beginning of all psychological work, for example, traditional African medicine, Freudian and Jungian dreamwork, or Carl Rogers’s person-oriented therapy occurred within a particular cultural group. However, dreaming is universal, and it is this cultural universality, and not the sociological racial biases of society, that must gain further acceptance in the field of psychology. When Jung developed his theory of the Collective Unconscious, of which dreamwork can be an essential aspect, he spoke of the universality of the theory. However, over time we can note flaws in his model, as Africanist people were placed at the lower end of his consciousness hierarchy including Jung’s study of the dreamlife.
