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This book presents a historical examination of C.G. Jung's politics and considers the insights he provides for those seeking to understand the causes of War. It looks at how Jung applies his theories to Nazi Germany and the rise of the theories of the collective unconscious and the archetypes.
Sommario
Introduction -- The Political Jung -- Concerning Freud and Jung on International Politics and War -- Jung and His Politics -- Jung on International Politics and the Causes of War -- Exploring the Theory -- From the Individual to ‘The Collective’: Examining Jung’s Progression from Clinician to Grand Theorist -- The Layered Model of the Collective Unconscious -- Archetypes: ‘Towards the Distant Goal of a Genetic Psychology’ 77 -- The Effect of the Archetypes in the Political Arena -- When Theory Meets History -- The Test Case: Wotan and Nazi Germany -- Jung on Hitler: A Case Study for Archetypal or Typology Theory? -- Post-Jungian Archetypal Theory and International Politics -- The Question of Anti-Semitism in the Zofingia Lectures -- The Freudians and Collective Theory -- Jung’s Perspective on International Politics After 1945 -- Adolf Bastian and Elementargedanken -- Key Dates For Jung During the Nazi Seizure of Power
Info autore
Dr Nick Lewin is on the executive committee of the C. G. Jung Analytical Psychology Club London and is in training as a Jungian psychotherapist. His degree was in 'International Politics and Strategic Studies' at University College Wales Aberystwth, his MA was in 'War Studies' at King's College and his PhD at Essex University was on Jung's use of his theories to explain European politics and Nazi Germany in the Thirties. He trained as a teacher and has taught across the age range from primary school to the MSc in 'War and Psychiatry' at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry. At present he is preparing his next book on Jung, Freud, the Jews and Nazi Germany, while working in private practice and as an honorary psychotherapist with Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Health authority.
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This book presents a historical examination of C.G. Jung's politics and considers the insights he provides for those seeking to understand the causes of War. It looks at how Jung applies his theories to Nazi Germany and the rise of the theories of the collective unconscious and the archetypes.
