Jung's Wandering Archetype
Race and religion in analytical psychology
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‘This manuscript follows clearly within categories (a) and (b), presenting new material on the intellectual context of Jung’s writing, especially his notorious essay, Wotan, and treating it and other works by Jung, especially from the 1930s, in a fresh and stimulating manner.’ Paul Bishop, University of Glasgow.
‘I have read not only the detailed proposal but also two substantial chapters and am happy to recommend publication of this book. Dohe has done her homework, offers a tight argument, and writes most lucidly. In sum, I strongly urge the acceptance of this proposal.’ Robert Segal, University of Aberdeen.
‘This is based on an excellent PhD that already stands up as a book. The detail and the situation of her ideas within an academic consideration of these discourses sets this work apart.’ Andrew Samuels.
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Is the Germanic god Wotan (Odin) really an archaic archetype of the Spirit? Was the Third Reich at first a collective individuation process? After Friedrich Nietzsche heralded the "death of God," might the divine have been reborn as a collective form of self-redemption on German soil and in the Germanic soul? In Jung's Wandering Archetype Carrie Dohe presents a study of Jung's writings on Germanic psychology from 1912 onwards, exploring the links between his views on religion and race and providing his perspective on the answers to these questions. Les mer
Is the Germanic god Wotan (Odin) really an archaic archetype of the Spirit? Was the Third Reich at first a collective individuation process? After Friedrich Nietzsche heralded the "death of God," might the divine have been reborn as a collective form of self-redemption on German soil and in the Germanic soul? In Jung's Wandering Archetype Carrie Dohe presents a study of Jung's writings on Germanic psychology from 1912 onwards, exploring the links between his views on religion and race and providing his perspective on the answers to these questions.
Dohe demonstrates how Jung's view of Wotan as an archetype of the collective Germanic psyche was created from a combination of an ancient discourse on the Germanic barbarian and modern theories of primitive religion, and how he further employed voelkisch ideology and various colonialist discourses to contrast hypothesized Germanic, Jewish and 'primitive' psychologies. He saw Germanic psychology as dangerous yet vital, promising rebirth and rejuvenation, and compared Wotan to the Pentecostal Spirit, suggesting that the Germanic psyche contained the necessary tension to birth a new collective psycho-spiritual attitude. In racializing his religiously-inflected psychological theory, Jung combined religious and scientific discourses in a particularly seductive way, masterfully weaving together the objective language of science with the eternal language of myth. Dohe concludes the book by examining the use of these ideas in modern Germanic religion, in which members claim that religion is a matter of race.
This in-depth study of Jung's views on psychology, race and spirituality will be fascinating reading for all academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies, religious studies and the history of religion.
Dohe demonstrates how Jung's view of Wotan as an archetype of the collective Germanic psyche was created from a combination of an ancient discourse on the Germanic barbarian and modern theories of primitive religion, and how he further employed voelkisch ideology and various colonialist discourses to contrast hypothesized Germanic, Jewish and 'primitive' psychologies. He saw Germanic psychology as dangerous yet vital, promising rebirth and rejuvenation, and compared Wotan to the Pentecostal Spirit, suggesting that the Germanic psyche contained the necessary tension to birth a new collective psycho-spiritual attitude. In racializing his religiously-inflected psychological theory, Jung combined religious and scientific discourses in a particularly seductive way, masterfully weaving together the objective language of science with the eternal language of myth. Dohe concludes the book by examining the use of these ideas in modern Germanic religion, in which members claim that religion is a matter of race.
This in-depth study of Jung's views on psychology, race and spirituality will be fascinating reading for all academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies, religious studies and the history of religion.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Routledge
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 280
- ISBN
- 9781138888395
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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‘This manuscript follows clearly within categories (a) and (b), presenting new material on the intellectual context of Jung’s writing, especially his notorious essay, Wotan, and treating it and other works by Jung, especially from the 1930s, in a fresh and stimulating manner.’ Paul Bishop, University of Glasgow.
‘I have read not only the detailed proposal but also two substantial chapters and am happy to recommend publication of this book. Dohe has done her homework, offers a tight argument, and writes most lucidly. In sum, I strongly urge the acceptance of this proposal.’ Robert Segal, University of Aberdeen.
‘This is based on an excellent PhD that already stands up as a book. The detail and the situation of her ideas within an academic consideration of these discourses sets this work apart.’ Andrew Samuels.
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