US POLITICAL MYTHOLOGY WITHIN JUNGIAN MODEL OF THE COLLECTIVE SOUL

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17072/2218-1067-2023-1-49-59

Keywords:

collective unconscious; political mythology; political psychology; US political mythology; political myth; Jungianism; archetype

Abstract

In this article, the US political mythology, its main symbols, archetypes and plots are analyzed within the framework of the original methodological model - the so-called "map of the collective soul", developed by M. Stein on the basis of the psychoanalytic theory of K.G. Jung. The author applies the Jungian model to the study of political and mythological material, based on the objective commonality of the roots from which both various socio-political myths and individual archetypal contents grow. This common ground is the space of the collective unconscious, the territory of a specific mass psychodynamics, where trauma gives rise to a complex, and a complex produces a myth. The study of American political mythology from this point of view provides valuable theoretical material that helps to understand the specifics of the mentality and identity of Americans, as well as the models on which the popular US political discourse is built.

Author Biography

E. V. Bulipopova, Institute of Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of RAS, Yekaterinburg

Candidate in Political Science, Fellow at the Department of Philosofy

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2023-04-28

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Bulipopova Е. В. (2023). US POLITICAL MYTHOLOGY WITHIN JUNGIAN MODEL OF THE COLLECTIVE SOUL. Bulletin of Perm University. Political Science, 17(1), 49–59. https://doi.org/10.17072/2218-1067-2023-1-49-59

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Vol. 17 No. 1 (2023): Bulletin of Perm University. Political Science

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Political institutions, processes, technologies

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