Jung on War, Politics and Nazi Germany

In the thirties, Jung was at the height of his powers and found himself swept up in the international politics of his day. As a consequence of Hitlers rise, Jung found himself president of what was to become the International General Medical Society for Psychotherapy. This placed Jung and his ideas in the center of a whirlwind of theoretical and political controversy. These chaotic times led him to comment widely on political events and saw his most extensive attempt to explain political events in terms of his theories of the collective and his use of the archetype of Wotan to explain Nazi Germany.