Beloved is such a synchronistic phenomenon, spirit who is situated at once within historical, temporal and spirit worlds. Furthermore, according to Jung, with synchronicity comes a therapeutic response to the repressed past; it is recognised and comprehended, and the subject may come to terms with these memories and himself.Furthermore, where Morrison diverges from Fraud’s theories but converges with Jung’s is in the acceptance of haunting as real. Fraud maintains that hallucinatory visions are associated with the animalistic phase in human development and are particularly prevalent among “primitive” people. As human beings continue through the religious and ultimately the scientific phases, such visions will no longer appear because individuals will have achieved maturity and “adjusted …show more content…
In an interview with Christina David, Morrison describes her use of the supernatural in Beloved : My own use of enchantment simply comes because that’s the way the world was for me and for the black people that I knew. In addition to the very shrewd, down-to-earth, efficient way in which they did things and survived things, there was this other knowledge or perception, always discredited but nevertheless there, which informed their sensibilities and clarified their activities. It formed a kind of cosmology that was perceptive as well as enchanting, and so it seemed impossible for me to write about black people and eliminate that simply because it was unbelievable (415). Morrison goes on to defend these spiritual forces as real even if too often dismissed as magical and thus not empirically justifiable.She describes family members who “had visitation...it not only made them for me the most interesting people in the world...it was an enormous resource for the resolution of certain kinds of problems”(Morrison,“Interview with Christina Davis”