Decolonizing Jungian Psychology

This course is designed to offer the participants an overview of C. G. Jung’s thoughts while exploring what I call a “decolonial option” to his work. It is in a sense a form of epistemological resistance to the colonialist and imperialist aims that prevent underrepresented minorities from flourishing in the academic community. This course aims to offer a decolonial option to the traditional view of Jungian Studies. A decolonial option means to challenge the Eurocentric view of the psyche presented in Jung’s Collected Works by offering a novel interpretation of his theories through the concept of archetypal intersubjectivity, indigenous mythology, and dream analysis based on diatopic hermeneutics. There would be no need for a decolonial approach to Jungian studies if those concepts were delinked from the concept of modernity/coloniality. Jung’s definition of the psyche is in tune with the Western view of the world, which considers modern thought as the leading epistemological force in psychology and other social sciences.