Jung and Politics

Jung never wrote a treatise that systematically defines the implications of his psychological theories for politics. His views on the subject are dispersed throughout his works although a number of books and essays are closely concerned with politics either explicitly or by implication and logical extension. Hence this book represents a compilation of those of Jung's ideas that have political and/or social implications gleaned from the voluminous writings on various subjects a comparison of those ideas with Freud's and a consideration of just what Jung's ideas imply for the social and political questions.</P><I>from the Preface.</I></P><P>Jung's anthropological studies his concepts of the archetypes and the collective unconscious did inevitably make him take stands in contemporary political conflicts and he developed a number of sociological and political ideas. Although Professor Odajnyk has not refrained from honestly giving his own views he gives in his book a very valuable survey of Jung's attitude toward anthropological and political questions.</P><P><B>-Marie-Louise von Franz</B> <i>from the Foreword</i></P><P><I>Contents</I>: The Origin of Culture and Politics * Psychic Inflation * Mass Psyche and Mass Man * The Individual and the State * Politics and the Unconscious * The German Case * The End of Politics * The Future of Man * Jung and Freud * A word about Democracy</P>