Race and the Unconscious engages the archetypal African consciousness that enriches our knowledge regarding the foundational mythopoetic of Africanist dreaming.
Featuring crucial historical context, Jungian and post-Jungian theory, clinical case studies, and dream series interpretations, the book offers readers a rich framework for exploring and understanding the language, images, and symbols of African and African American dreamlife. It expands the modern understanding of dreaming with the inclusion of Africanist perspectives, philosophy, and mythology while emphasizing the potential for and process of psychological healing through dreamwork.
Race and the Unconscious is a must-read for Jungian analysts and analytical psychologists in practice and in training, as well as anyone interested in understanding psychological processes inclusive of those of African descent and their culture, including academics and students of sociology, anthropology, African American studies, and African diaspora studies.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Part 1: Foundation
Introduction
1. African Philsophy: Identity
2. The Politics of Philosophy
3. Racism and Mythology: Separating the Two
4. Re-Framing African Mythology
Part 2: Practice
5. Analytical Psychology and Dreamwork
6. Traditional African Healing Practice: Dreamwork
7. Dreaming as a Creative Process
Part 3: Africanist Dreaming
8. Embodiment, Dreams, Trauma
9. African American Dreamer Portrait Dialogues
10. African American Dreamers: Themes and Mythological Motifs
11. Cultural Symbols and Dream Interpretation
12. Deepening the Dream
13. Closing Reflections
Index