Aspects Of Jungian Psychology: A Study Of Derek Walcott’s Dream On Monkey Mountain

Abstract

The evident connotation of the term post-colonial is that it attributes to an era coming after the end of colonialism. The remnants of colonialism can still be perceived in the postcolonial period, for colonialism unleashed an immense wound on the psychology, culture and identity of the once conquered people. The current situation of once colonized people is attributed to colonialism which has accorded a set of problems including identity crisis, displacement and mimicry. In this social turmoil the oppressed have lost their native selves. The present article focuses only on the concept of "dream," and the present article, which acknowledges and reflects on some of the main relevant interpretations (all about dreams), tends to add that the identity, and thus the destiny, of a (colonized) nation is also shaped by its collective unconscious which belongs to the psychic heritage of all members of the human family.