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>>14350336

Archetype is the wrong term.

"The white complex is, figuratively speaking, the white man inside the black person’s psyche, as the black complex is the black man inside the white person’s psyche. The white complex operates in the African-American psyche as a judgmental and alienating authority principle that compels African Americans to displace onto whites their inner authority and the measuring rod of their own goodness. The black complex operates in the white American psyche as a threatening instinctual force—what Joseph Conrad called the “Africa within”—compelling white Americans to displace onto blacks their animal nature, dark fears (such as fear of death), and evil impulses. The infantilization that white America has imposed upon black America through slavery, segregation, and stereotypes that are still active today has been a way to keep this part of the human psyche at bay. Historian Daniel Boorstin as well as Jung described this living part of us as the primitive childhood of our species. Repressing and projecting it onto them, whites reduced the status of blacks to that of children needing to be reared and managed—the proverbial “white man’s burden.” White fear of the strong sexual drive rooted in this part of the psyche prompted social economist and Nobel laureate Gunnar Myrdal to note the sexual element of segregation and the castrations that often preceded lynchings: white women supposedly needed to be protected from the advances of supposedly lascivious black men."

http://www.michaelgellert.com/pdfs/jung-said-about-race-relations-in-america.pdf