Lu, Kevin (2020) 'Racial Hybridity Jungian and Post-Jungian Perspectives.' International Journal of Jungian Studies, 12 (1). pp. 11-40. ISSN 1940-9052

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Abstract

This paper explores some possible contributions analytical psychology may make to theorising racial hybridity. Already a ‘hybrid psychology’, Lu suggests that analytical psychology is particularly well-positioned to speak to the specific experiences and challenges posed by multiraciality. In particular, Lu critically reflects on his hopes, fears, and fantasies that have arisen with the birth of his multiracial children, which may in turn act as a springboard to greater depth psychological reflections on the unique and equally ‘typical’ experience of raising mixed-raced children. Such concerns have been articulated by others such as Bruce Lee, who faced the challenge of raising multiracial children amidst a backdrop of racism in the Unites States. This paper critically assesses possible ways in which racial hybridity may be theorised from a Jungian perspective and argues that a Post-Jungian approach must reflect the flexibility and fluidity of hybridity itself.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	racial hybridity; racism; autoethnography; miscegenation; Jung and Post-Jungian Studies; liminality; Bruce Lee
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, Department of
SWORD Depositor:	Elements
Depositing User:	Elements
Date Deposited:	07 Mar 2022 19:59
Last Modified:	07 Mar 2022 19:59
URI:	http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/32451

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