Jung’s insight into language, collective consciousness, and the archetypal structures of popular myth offers us powerful means for exposing America’s imperial agenda and confronting the powerful force of corporate media in today’s ceaseless information war. In this ardent plea for individual consciousness and collective responsibility, the kindred observations of Noam Chomsky’s classic Manufacture of Consent will also be brought to bear on the analysis of one timely example of imperial mythology, the “National Security Strategy of the United States” of Under Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz.
Bradley A. TePaske, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst trained at the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich, a clinical psychologist, and progressive political activist. He holds an MFA in Printmaking and Art History from UMASS Amherst, a Doctorate in Depth Psychology from the Union Institute of Cincinnati; is a member of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, and practices in Pacific Palisades and Los Angeles.
Part of “Psyche and World: Depth Psychology and Contemporary Events,” the Club’s 32nd Annual Jungian Conference