Jung’s universal archetypes are actually just Europe’s childhood projected onto all humanity

Evidence

This is where Jung was an innovator: He wanted to go back to the childhood of the world, but he made a remarkable mistake: He went back only to the childhood of Europe. In the remotest depth of the European unconscious an inordinately black hollow has been made in which the most immoral impulses, the most shameful desires lie dormant. And as every man climbs up toward whiteness and light, the European has tried to repudiate this uncivilized self, which has attempted to defend itself. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 665

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges a foundational claim of analytical psychology; useful contrast for the reader’s analysis of divergent narratives. — connects to: Jung universalized what was only European childhood psychic material; All of Jung’s major concepts originated in his visionary Red Book descent — Jamal Awil, The Whispering Archive: The Complete…, 629; The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 668 (+1 more)

Related

• Jung universalized what was only European childhood psychic material (similarity 0.94)
• All of Jung’s major concepts originated in his visionary Red Book descent (similarity 0.84)
• Even well-meaning Europeans’ childhood racial imagery persists into adulthood (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 668
• Even well-meaning Europeans’ childhood racial imagery persists into adulthood #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 708