ABSTRACT
The literary works of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison are looked at through the lens of analytical psychology. These authors knew and respected each other’s work, and they shared common attitudes toward the cultural complex of racialized intersubjectivities (the result of the collapse of relational space). To work with this complex, they developed a relationship to their inner lives that allowed them to hold the love and destruction that they found in America’s unprocessed, because unacknowledged, racial dilemmas. They found the primary racialized complex to include the privileging of white subjectivity (innocence and denial) that defined people of color as degraded others.
