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BTS

Disciplines:
music
k-pop
k-pop/south korea
jungian psychology/jung psychology

Summary

South Korean musical group (Bangtan Sonyeondan — Beyond The Scene) who have become the most successful Korean musical act in history — whose Map of the Soul album series (Persona, 7) was directly inspired by and references Murray Stein's Jung's Map of the Soul — making Jungian psychology embedded in their most successful artistic work.

Core Contribution

Brought Jungian psychology to the most global mainstream popular music audience in history — the Map of the Soul series' explicit engagement with Persona, Shadow, and Ego in Jungian terms transformed analytical psychology from an academic and therapeutic concern into the conceptual framework for the world's most popular music act.

Historical Influences

Murray Stein C.G. Jung Korean music industry

Intellectual Lineage

Big Hit Entertainment Global

Allied Works

Map of the Soul: Persona Map of the Soul: 7 BE

Contemporaries & Peers

K-pop industryGlobal pop acts

Minds Influenced

Global pop musicJungian popular culture Jungian tradition

Intellectual Posterity

Map of the Soul: Persona Map of the Soul: 7 BTS as Jungian popArmy

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