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

1 Concerning Freud and Jung on international politics and war. 2 Jung and his politics. 3 Jung on international politics and the causes of war. 4 From the individual to 'the collective': examining Jung's progression from clinician to grand theorist. 5 The layered model of the collective unconscious. 6 Archetypes: 'toward the distant goal of a genetic psychology'. 7 The effect of the archetypes in the political arena. 8 The test case: Wotan and Nazi Germany. 9 Jung on Hitler: a case study for archetypal or typology theory?. 10 Post-Jungian archetypal theory and international politics. Appendix A - The question f anti-Semitism in the Zofingia lectures. Appendix B - The Freudians and collective theory. Appendix C - Jung's perspective on international politics after 1945. Appendix D - Adolf Bastian and Elementargedanken. Appendix E - Key dates for Jung during the Nazi seizure of power

'...In particular Lewin explores Jung's ideas concerning war of the psychopathology, both in terms of his attitudes towards the growing threat of war that a revanchist Germany represented from 1936, and later, during the war itself, as a psychiatric consultant for Alan Dulles (future director of the CIA) in American intelligence's early attempts at profiling the enemy leadership using Freudian and Jungian techniques. This is a superb piece of innovative and critical analysis that offers its readers a mastery of Jungian analysis and subtle insights about the challenging world around us.' --M.L.R. Smith

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