Jung’s primitive-archetype theory is vitiated by colonial contact.

Evidence

When we discover that there are several cultures instead of just one and consequently at the time when we acknowledge the end of a sort of cultural monopoly, be it illusory or real, we are threatened with the destruction of our own discovery. Suddenly it becomes possible that there are just others, that we ourselves are an ‘other’ among others. All meaning and every goal having disappeared, it becomes possible to wander through civilisations as if through vestiges and ruins. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 14 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The reactions and the behavior patterns to which the arrival of the European in Madagascar gave rise were not tacked on to a pre-existing set. There was no addition to the earlier psychic whole. If, for instance, Martians undertook to colonize the earth men—not to initiate them into Martian culture but to colonize them—we should be doubtful of the persistence of any earth personality. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347; Encountering another culture can dissolve one’s own sense of meaning — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 14

Related

• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.81)
• Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it. (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial contact shattered Madagascar’s prior psychological mechanisms (similarity 0.79)
• Colonized cultures became conscripts of modernity, not fixed essences. (similarity 0.79)
• Encountering another as free alter ego shatters the taken-for-granted world (similarity 0.79)
• A detailed colonial psychology study can still miss its real coordinates. (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial violence created a spiritual void more powerful than class conflict. (similarity 0.78)
• Cultural hybridity is unavoidable and shaped by unequal colonial power relations (similarity 0.78)
• Encountering another culture can dissolve one’s own sense of meaning (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Encountering another culture can dissolve one’s own sense of meaning #corroborates (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 14
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #complicates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347