10.1.26 | Volodymyr Walter Odajnyk: Jung and Politics | Free Reading Discussion

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 from the Preface. “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.” – Marie-Louise von Franz (from the Foreword)

Join the C.G. Jung Library reading discussion group as we consider, from this author’s perspective, Jung’s views on politics, politicians, and the forces that lie beneath mass movements in the collective.