Races and nations as functions of the world whole

to their respective functions’. He proposed, then, an investigation of ‘the psychological lay-out of the world as it presents itself to a mind beginning to be conscious in the world sense’,

Thus his treatment of race is essentially psychological. In lectures which he gave some years later than the 1920-21 World Affairs he made a direct comparison between the world-whole and the whole individual according to Jung’s analysis. He did this by considering Jung’s four functions in the form of a cross made up of the two pairs of Opposites, superimposing this on the four points of the compass, north and south, east and west respectively. By this very approximate analysis intellect would appear as the ‘superior function’ of the Northern races, feeling of the Southern, intuition of the Eastern, and sensation of the Western.

N

Intellect

E

Sensation Intuition

Feeling

S

It is very important to see that this should not be taken as saying that Europeans are intellectual and Africans only emotional and deficient in intellect, or something of the sort. Or that Americans are realistic people who see things as they are, while Asians all indulge in childish fantasies. It could, of course, be put quite differently—that Europeans are devoid of feeling and that

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