Why ecocide? Elements of analysis in a Jungian reflection

As analysts, how can we think about the collective unconscious factors involved in the advent of the current systemic crisis? The central axis of this problematic seems to be constituted by the distorted relationship of the human being to his own nature as a creature, leading him to project his unsolved infantile problems on an archetypal mode, in order to restore a body-Self which has been artificialised during its building. Doesn’t the evolutionary principle, supported by the Self, seek to make us finally become aware of the limits and abuses of classical readings of the founding myths of our societies, so that we can confront our psychic interiority in its as yet unexplored deadly aspects, instead of dumping them into the open air? The virulence of a counter-oedipal complex, unconsciously at work and still acting culturally, on the oedipal family level as on the religious one, is explicitly inscribed here. This complex needs to be elaborated because it underlies the unconscious and archaic collective suicidal behaviour, which we enact by polluting our Mother Earth. The taken risk of ecocide can be read as a collective Western crisis of adolescence, which the rising generation seizes with the hope of transforming the archetypal situation.