Language:
French
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
L'Infini
Angaben zur Quelle:
63 (1998) 73-94
Keywords:
Jung, C. G.
;
National socialism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Surveys Jung's career and writings in regard to his attitude to Nazi ideology. Psychoanalysis, considered a "Jewish science" in the Third Reich, was disqualified by Matthias Göring, who founded, in 1936, the Deutsches Institut für Psychologische Forschung. In 1933 Jung became the president of the Allgemeine Ärztliche Gesellschaft für Psychoterapie, an organization founded in 1926 in Zürich. The German branch was nazified. Its members believed that Jung would promote an "Aryan" psychotherapy, opposed to the Freudian methods. The journal edited by the Society favored articles praising Nazi Germany. Analyzes Jung's theories of the "archetype" and "psychology of nations". Jung classified the Jews as a nation without roots which, wishing to avoid psychological denationalization, invaded the mental, social, and cultural universe of non-Jews. Notes Jung's apologetic articles on National Socialism and his affirmation of the superiority of Aryans over Jews. In 1940 Jung resigned from his position as president of the AÄGP and began to criticize Nazi Germany and Hitler. Discusses Jung's postwar career and writings about him in West Germany, Great Britain, and France. The legend of the innocent Jung was especially widespread in France due to the translation of his writings which Nazi past.
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