Jung on war, politics and Nazi Germany: exploring the theory of archetypes and the collective unconscious

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In the thirties Jung was at the height of his powers and found himself swept up in the international politics of his day. At this time he was president of what was to become the International General Medical Society for Psychotherapy. As a consequence of Hitler's rise, Jung and his ideas were placed in the centre of a whirlwind of theoretical and political controversy. These chaotic times led him to comment widely on political events and saw his most extensive attempt to explain these events in terms of his theories of the collective and his use of the archetype of Wotan to explain Nazi Germany. This work is part of the ongoing reappraisal of the intellectual fabric of Jung's theory and the perspective he sought to establish, and seeks to re-examine the period, to unravel some of the confusion by setting out the historical background of Jung's ideas, and provide a fresh debate on Jung and his collective theory. Chapter Introduction / Nicholas Adam Lewin -- part Phase One The Political Jung / Nicholas Adam Lewin -- chapter 1 Concerning Freud and Jung on International Politics and War / Nicholas Adam Lewin -- chapter 2 Jung and His Politics / Nicholas Adam Lewin -- chapter 3 Jung on International Politics and the Causes of War / Nicholas Adam Lewin -- part Phase Two Exploring the Theory / Nicholas Adam Lewin -- chapter 4 From the Individual to 'The Collective': Examining Jung's Progression from Clinician to Grand Theorist / Nicholas Adam Lewin -- chapter 5 The Layered Model of the Collective Unconscious / Nicholas Adam Lewin -- chapter 6 Archetypes: 'Towards the Distant Goal of a Genetic Psychology' 77 / Nicholas Adam Lewin -- chapter 7 The Effect of the Archetypes in the Political Arena / Nicholas Adam Lewin -- part Phase Three When Theory Meets History / Nicholas Adam Lewin -- chapter 8 The Test Case: Wotan and Nazi Germany / Nicholas Adam Lewin -- chapter 9 Jung on Hitler: A Case Study for Archetypal or Typology Theory? / Nicholas Adam Lewin -- chapter 10 Post-Jungian Archetypal Theory and International Politics / Nicholas Adam Lewin.