Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
40,5 (1994) 59-63
Keywords:
Jung, C. G.
;
Antisemitism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
States that there is something in the deep, fundamental structure of Jung's thought that made it inevitable that he would develop a kind of antisemitism. Jung believed that each nation has a different and identifiable national psychology that is, in some mysterious manner, an innate factor. The ideas of nation and of national difference form a fulcrum between the Hitlerian phenomenon and Jung's analytical psychology. Jung too (like Hitler, but for different reasons) would tend to feel threatened by the Jews, seen as a nation without a land, and by what he called "Jewish psychology" which attacked the idea of psychological differences between nations. Concludes that even if Jung's method and ideology are suspect, his intuition of the importance of exploring difference remains intact. But the analyst's task must not be to predefine what differences there are between nations, races, classes, or sexes; the analyst is a mediator who enables the patient to experience and express his or her own difference.
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