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The study insists on understanding the miscarriage of “Pan-Africanism” and the role of “African” mentality with the help of Fanon’s psychoanalysis “Black Skin, White Mask,” exemplifying the immense colonial, slavery, and apartheid psychological damages experienced by Black individuals resulting Blacks/Africans self-hate and a desire to be “white” throughout the domain of Western culture, ideology, and language. To provide accurate analysis of the “Pan-African” failure to solve increasing blacks-hate-against-blacks/xenophobia in South Africa, concepts othering, mimicry, subaltern from the critical theory (postcolonialism) were applied. Thereupon, Qualitative Content Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis relying on the theoretical concepts were conducted, which underlined how the mimicry process makes Africa's interaction an elite-driven one, oppressing African/subaltern citizens. The findings showed a need for "Black-Consciousness" and Nkrumah's “Pan-African” vision (African unification) to end colonial-mentality generating collective subordination of Subaltern/Africans. Generally, the use of Fanon’s psycho-social analysis has shown that the generational oppression, trauma, and cultural stereotypes continue to robotize and dictate African leaders and the African Union's favoritism of Western “neo-liberal” policies. It is summarized that the “Pan-African” failure is a failure of gradual unconscious “Pan-Africanists” who pledge allegiance to “Western” policies rather than rededicating themselves to durable Radical “Pan-Africanism” which is an antidote to Africa’s self-hate/xenophobia, neo-colonialism, and the robotization of unconscious Africans.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:48:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcio Roberto Agostinho.pdf: 1093595 bytes, checksum: 21ebddfa2f76598faa9f27a9c3d67045 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-12-13 / This research addresses the Carl Yung's postulation in which religious thinking has rooted in the soul. In others terms, Jung has established a psychological foundation for the religious thinking. The aim of this work is therefore to try to understand the sacred having as stating point, the mind where reposes actively a imago Dei. Furthermore, it envisage to comprehend the relationship of this religious thinking (imago Dei) to the meaning of life. This imago revealed by the Self the divine archetype 0 is the ultimate answer of the soul: its earnest desire for life meaning. As the soul belongs to the inner world of the individual, only when one turns to the inside of self, than, he will discover the path which leads to the meaning of life and ultimately to the healing of the individual personality. / A presente pesquisa trata da postulação junguiana de que o pensamento religioso se originou da alma. Em outras palavras, Jung fez uma fundamentação psicológica para o pensamento religioso. O objetivo desse trabalho então foi tentar compreender o sagrado a partir da psique onde repousa ativamente uma imago Dei. Procurou ainda, constatar a possível relação desse pensamento religioso (imago Dei) com o sentido da vida. Essa imago manifestada pelo Self -arquétipo do divino - é a resposta à questão última da alma: o anseio que ela tem pelo sentido da vida. Como a alma pertence ao mundo interior do indivíduo, somente fazendo uma volta para dentro de si mesmo é que se trilhará o caminho que leva ao sentido da vida e, em última instância, à cura para a sua personalidade.