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Future psychological historians, the explorers of the archetypal “Innerverse,” will one day judge the significance of the media constructed “Black President Archetype” and its impact upon the contemporary collective unconscious, especially in relation to politics and the election of Barack Obama.
I suggest that decades of Hollywood movies, network TV dramas and media promoted imagery of the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2939 social reality which has the potential to fully create the “shadow” side of that archetype.
We can suggest a possible archetypal analysis of the significance of the Black President Archetype via its previous and existing cultural forms in the media.
The imagery of a Black President of the United States has been a staple of Hollywood movies for decades. Usually the Black President is seen as a savior figure.
What is interesting is the context in which those cultural forms of the Black president within movies have been actualized, and they have almost always been associated with some of national disaster or planetary disaster. The archetypal image of the Black president of the United States is always accompanied by imagery associated with an apocalypse.This is the shadow side of the archetype.
One cannot have one without the other.
From the film Deep Impact with Morgan Freeman as President Tom Beck, Dennis Haysbert as President David Palmer in 24, Chris Rock, Tommy Lister and James Earl Jones as Douglas Dillman in “The Man” (1972), the image of the Black President is associated with war and crisis. In most cases the the media archetype of the Black President saves the nation and the world.
The Black President archetype is usually peddled to the masses as some sort of savior who can always solve every existential threat to the nation and world.
Therefore in an age of chaos the archetype of the Black President is what becomes active within the collective unconscious. Problem/Reaction/Solution.
This is interesting as this is what is happening right now in the world.
It appears that the media creation of an archetype may in fact assist that archetype in actualizing itself.
By creating a cultural imagery associated with a Black President saving the nation in peril, when the nation is in actual peril then that archetype may find fertile ground within the collective unconscious of a nation – and allow individuals and social forces to use that archetype to gain political power.
What is even more interesting is the suggestion that the election of a Black President may in fact be an manifestation of a prefiguration of some catastrophic event in human history.
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