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The book begins with promise by discussing C. G. Jung’s famous “Wotan” essay from 1936, in which he asserted that the father god of the pre-Christian Germanic religion is a fundamental archetype of the German mind. In the ancient sagas, Wotan is full of contradictory impulses, being understood as both a deity of wisdom as well as of war and frenzy, among many other characteristics. Jung.
Carl Jung was born Karl Gustav II Jung in Kesswil, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau, on 26 July 1875, as the fourth but only surviving child of Paul Achilles Jung and Emilie Preiswerk. Emilie Preiswerk was the youngest child of Samuel Preiswerk, Paul Achilles Jung's professor of Hebrew. His father was a poor rural pastor in the Swiss Reformed Church, while his mother came from a wealthy and.
To use Carl Jung’s perhaps too often referenced 1936 essay “Wotan” as a starting point: towards the release of previously contained and repressed demons (or archetypes to use Jung’s phrase.
In his (in)famous 1936 essay on the Teutonic God Wotan, Jung gave a psychomythical interpretation of the rise of National Socialism and spelled out its alleged archetypal roots. He saw the reawakening of the primordial Wotan archetype as the key factor in the rise of National Socialism, and he expressed his hope that through the inherently dialectical development of culture, Germany will.
According to Jung’s explanation, Wotan was like a psychic channel that could be temporarily dammed in the German unconsciousness, but which periodically overtopped the dam and broke free into.
In his somewhat controversial essay, “Wotan,” written in 1936, Jung attempted to understand what was happening in Germany with the rise of Hitler, and the embrace by the populace of a.
In his somewhat controversial essay, “Wotan,” written in 1936, Jung attempted to understand what was happening in Germany with the rise of Hitler, and the embrace by the populace of a militaristic, jingoistic, fascist leader. As Jung saw it, the god Wotan, or Odin, was an unconscious archetype that had been a latent potential in the German people and arose as a dominant force between the.