Essays about: "Collective unconsciousness"

Found 2 essays containing the words Collective unconsciousness.

  1. 1. Digesting the Pan-African Failure and the Role of African Psychology : Fanonian understanding of the Pan-African failure in establishing oneness and ending disunity/xenophobia in South Africa

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Aisha Mohamed; [2021]
    Keywords : Gradual Pan-Africanism; Radical Pan-Africanism; Collective-unconsciousness; Abandonment-neurotic; Black-Consciousness; Political unity; Neo-colonialism; Otherness; Mimicry; Subaltern.;

    Abstract : The study insists on understanding the miscarriage of “Pan-Africanism” and the role of “African” mentality with the help of Fanon’s psychoanalysis “Black Skin, White Mask,” exemplifying the immense colonial, slavery, and apartheid psychological damages experienced by Black individuals resulting Blacks/Africans self-hate and a desire to be “white” throughout the domain of Western culture, ideology, and language. To provide accurate analysis of the “Pan-African” failure to solve increasing blacks-hate-against-blacks/xenophobia in South Africa, concepts othering, mimicry, subaltern from the critical theory (postcolonialism) were applied. READ MORE

  3. 2. Understanding Locke & Key: A Semiotic and Intertextual study of the Collective Unconscious and some of its Archetypes in Locke & Key

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Henrik Rogowski; [2020]
    Keywords : Comic books; Horror; Intertextuality; Julia Kristeva; Psychoanalysis; Carl Jung; Collective unconsciousness; Archetypes; Roland Barthes; Semiotics; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis’ focus will be on the comic book series Locke & Key in a semiotic and an intertextual reading through a psychoanalytical framework. The comic series is described as a “psychological horror” and a main theme running across the six volumes is good versus evil, and a lot of the narrative is helped by magical keys. READ MORE