I'd like to share with you guys an essay about what Carl Jung wrote on Hitler, about Hitler's intentional personification as a Wotanic Archetype to try and appeal to the German people.
“Because the behavior of a race takes on its specific character from its underlying images, we can speak of an archetype ‘Wotan’.” –Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, Wotan
“One form of Odin is dead, that is, the Odin who was the highest of the many gods who appeared as the embodiment of a generation still given up to natural symbolisms. But Odin as the eternal mirrored image of the primal spiritual powers of Nordic man lives today just as he did over 5,000 years ago.” –Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, The Myth of the Twentieth Century
Here, Carl Jung’s Wotan w/ Blutundboden 3-6-14*, the essay entitled, “Woden As Archetype – The Carl Jung Essay”, written by New Zealand’s Dr. Kerry Raymond Bolton, is read aloud by myself.** The essay focuses on the ideas of Dr. Carl Gustav Jung concerning the Wild Hunt that was rearing up in Germany with Adolf Hitler at the reins. The primary source of inspiration for Dr. Bolton’s essay, “Woden As Archetype – The Carl Jung Essay”, is Dr. Jung’s own essay titled “Wotan”, found here: Dr. C.G. Jung – Wotan.
In 1937, as pointed out by Dr. Bolton, Jung described Hitler as “a medium […] the mouthpiece of the Gods of old…”. –Bolton gives the following as a source: JUNG IN CONTEXT.
Elsewhere, not contained in the essay read aloud, this was stated by Dr. Jung:
“There is no question but that Hitler belongs in the category of the truly mystic medicine man. As somebody commented about him at the last Nürnberg party congress, since the time of Mohammed nothing like it has been seen in this world. His body does not suggest strength. The outstanding characteristic of his physiognomy is its dreamy look. I was especially struck by that when I saw pictures taken of him in the Czechoslovakian crisis; there was in his eyes the look of a seer. This markedly mystic characteristic of Hitler’s is what makes him do things which seem to us illogical, inexplicable, and unreasonable. … So you see, Hitler is a medicine man, a spiritual vessel, a demi-deity or, even better, a myth.”
–During an interview with H. R. Knickerbocker, first published in Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan (January 1939), in which Jung was asked to diagnose Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin, later published in Is Tomorrow Hitler’s? (1941), by H. R. Knickerbocker, also published in The Seduction of Unreason : The Intellectual Romance with Fascism (2004) by Richard Wolin, Ch. 2 : Prometheus Unhinged : C. G. Jung and the Temptations of Aryan Religion, p. 75
“We are always convinced that the modern world is a reasonable world, basing our opinion on economic, political, and psychological factors. […] In fact, I venture the heretical suggestion that the unfathomable depths of Wotan’s character explain more of National Socialism than all three reasonable factors put together.” –Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, Wotan
“When, for instance, the belief in the God Wotan vanished and nobody thought of him anymore, the phenomenon originally called Wotan remained; nothing changed but its name, as National Socialism has demonstrated on a grand scale. A collective movement consists of millions of individuals, each of whom shows the symptoms of Wotanism and proves thereby that Wotan in reality never died, but has retained his original vitality and autonomy. Our consciousness only imagines that it has lost its Gods; in reality they are still there and it only needs a certain general condition in order to bring them back in full force.” –Dr. Carl Gustav Jung in a letter to Miguel Serrano
This painting was made in 1889, the year Adolf Hitler was born:
The painter is Franz von Stuck. He created two paintings that were both titled “Die Wilde Jagd”, which can mean either “The Wild Hunt” or “The Wild Chase”. When translated into English, the one above is referred to as “The Wild Chase”, and the one below as “The Wild Hunt”. The latter version is dated 1899.