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- Title
Jung and the African Diaspora.
- Authors
MILLS, BARRY
- Abstract
Jung feared and yet echoed Africa. Despite detailed attention to mythology, C.G. Jung wrote little of African myth. However, ironic parallels exist between Jungian concepts and the mythology of the African Diaspora. These similarities are strongest within contemporary developments in Jungian thought. In archetypal psychology, James Hillman further relativizes the ego beyond Jung's original project, concluding that the ego is itself anachronistic. This paper suggests that archetypal psychology even further radicalizes contemporary myths of the Diaspora. In this perspective, Wole Soyinka has literalized the imagination; concretized the metaphor of Ogun - by covertly positing a singular meaning in the hero of the wounded artist. Soyinka's sentiment unwittingly retains the logic of the modern predicament; the deadly Cartesian split of objective onlooker.
- Subjects
AFRICA; JUNG, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961; AFRICAN diaspora; AFRICAN migrations; SOYINKA, Wole, 1934-; OGUN (Yoruba deity)
- Publication
Western Journal of Black Studies, 2006, Vol 30, Issue 2, p84
- ISSN
0197-4327
- Publication type
Article