Question

Discuss the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from a Jungian approach. Talk about the psychological types that describe Dr. King as well as how he exemplifies the archetype of a hero. 1 page.

Answer 1

King’s first struggle to end racial discrimination in public transportation in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 was a modest beginning. But the 15-year struggle ended successfully without violence. King felt that he was called upon to widen the horizon of social integration to a commitment to social justice. He knew that a privilegedcommunity of white European background is not likely to give up its historical privileges to less educated citizens from Africa. King was of African descent, but he had a Western philosophical and theological education which drew his attention to the depth of meaning of the Greek concept of Agape as it was expressed in the Sermon on the Mount and in the Good Samaritan parable.As Jesus delivered a message of brotherly love so did Kingcall for social ethical and moral action. King was able to reach the silent majority of Americans as well as political and policy makers to fuse frozen horizons with reconcilable positions. The success of the King movement is probably due to the creative morality of a wide range of American segments of society in the fifties and sixties. American activistslike Dr. Benjamin Spock, King’s white mentors, the National Association of Colored People, and several other organizations contributed to the success of the movement for racial integration. There were benefactors like the Rockefellers who heavily subsidized Negro Colleges. There was a diverse assortment of the new class of liberal intellectual scholars like Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr and Edgar S. Brightman.King’s professors at Crozer.