A displaced group’s collective unconscious changes within a century

Evidence

Continuing to take stock of reality, endeavoring to ascertain the instant of symbolic crystallization, I very naturally found myself on the threshold of Jungian psychology. European civilization is characterized by the presence, at the heart of what Jung calls the collective unconscious, of an archetype: an expression of the bad instincts, of the darkness inherent in every ego, of the uncivilized savage, the Negro who slumbers in every white man. And Jung claims to have found in uncivilized peoples the same psychic structure that his diagram portrays. Personally, I think that Jung has deceived himself. Moreover, all the peoples that he has known–whether the Pueblo Indians of Arizona or the Negroes of Kenya in British East Africa–have had more or less traumatic contacts with the white man. I said earlier that in his Salavinizations52 the young Antillean is never black; and I have tried to show what this phenomenon corresponds to. Jung locates the collective unconscious in the inherited cerebral matter. But the collective unconscious, without our having to fall back on the genes, is purely and simply the sum of prejudices, myths, collective attitudes of a given group. It is taken for granted, to illustrate, that the Jews who have settled in Israel will produce in less than a hundred years a collective unconscious different from the ones that they had had before 1945 in the countries which they were forced to leave. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 664 (#expands, via linked claim)

With these considerable shifts in population, the whole social panorama and the perceptual framework are disturbed and restructured. A mechta evacuated is not a mechta that has migrated. The chain of events of the operation must be patiently followed: bombardments of the region, multiple raids, able-bodied men taking to the mountains, the dead quickly buried, the hostages taken away by the French, certain members of the mechta taking refuge in a neighboring town with relatives or friends. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 388 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 668; A group imagining actions shifts from spectator to potential doer — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 326; Collective fears can reshape group behavior in ambiguous situations. — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics: the…, 647 (+17 more)

Related

• The collective unconscious is socially acquired, not inherited genetically. (similarity 0.81)
• Human brains develop differently across cultural contexts, unlike chemical laws. (similarity 0.80)
• The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The collective unconscious is socially acquired, not inherited genetically. #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 664
• Forced evacuation of mechtas restructured Algerian perceptual and social reality #exemplifies (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 388
• Colonized people experience reality through rigid bipolar pairings. #exemplifies (0.50)
• A group imagining actions shifts from spectator to potential doer #expands (0.40) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 326
• Collective fears can reshape group behavior in ambiguous situations. #expands (0.40) — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics, 647
• Time-binding cultures value history, ritual symbols, and rooted community #qualifies (0.40) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 624
• Human consciousness is undergoing significant evolution currently. #expands (0.40) — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 0
• Traditional social structures and orders can disintegrate over time #qualifies (0.40)
• First-person plural narration can render historically silenced collective experience #exemplifies (0.40) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 199
• The ritual view of communication maintains society in time through shared beliefs #corroborates (0.30) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 161
• Youth deviant groups create cultural friction during social change. #expands (0.30) — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics, 754