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The sociopolitical dimension of the Jungian concept of shadow in Jordan Peele's Us. New article for Miista's blog.
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"It’s a fact that every society has been built and maintained at the cost of the subordination, exploitation and exclusion of certain social groups. How did Americans get their cotton produced? How did Egyptians get their pyramids built? How was an important part of Barcelona’s urbanism defrayed? (With money from trafficking of Africans by rich families. This is a conversation recently started in Spain.) Who used to prepare men’s meals and raise their children? How does the Western world get its oil extracted and its low-cost clothes fabricated? How do the greatest fortunes make more and more money while poverty rates increase? And what better metaphor for these inequalities than the difference in the food and toys Adelaide (the accommodated one) and Red (her behavioural slave) had in their lives?"
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