Freud recruited Jung to mask psychoanalysis’s perceived Jewishness

Evidence

Freud, worried about the effect of antisemitism on the fledgling discipline, hoped that Carl Jung’s presence would give psychoanalysis a more acceptable Christian face. Jung’s own theory of “racial memory” and his deployment of his model of individuation to characterize the African psyche as primitive did not however save psychoanalysis for long from its “Jewish” tag. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1252

Categorization

• XREF: A concrete instance of a stigmatized group recruiting a more acceptable face to gain legitimacy — parallels the diamond bourse’s reputational strategies and the general trust/outsider theme.