Please post your comments and continue the discussion on this lecture by Jeanne Lacourt.
Jung’s meeting with the people of Taos Pueblo had a tremendous effect on him. It impacted and permeated his life’s work and theory and it influenced how he thought and wrote about “the primitive.” But could he have been mistaken? And what might native people have to say about his ideas of them?
Thank you, Jeanne, for sharing your patient wisdom! How interesting that Jung’s cultural superiority implicit bias saw participation mystique as “primitive” and he received glimpses of it before, during and after his Taos visit while also claiming there were no “Indians” in or near his lands! Participation mystique, perhaps the original pre-concept or source of connection with All – call Her God, Soul or Great Spirit, has been foundational to indigenous (pre-colonialized or “enlightened”) cultures for maybe three billion years since people – human and non-human – lived together for individual and cooperative or prosocial group survival. Ubuntu – i am because we are (from Zulu).