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239 pages, Paperback
Published July 9, 1991
You meet a [French]man and say: Enchanté de faire votre connaissance. You are not enchanté de faire sa connaissance at all; you are really feeling: Oh go to the devil. But you are not disturbed, nor is he. But do not say to a German: Enchanté de faire votre connaissance, because he will believe it. A German will sell you a pair of sock-suspenders and not only expect, as is natural, to be paid for it. He also expects to be loved for it."Speaking a few years after Hitler rose to power, but before the outbreak of World War 2, Jung also describes the appeal of Naziism in terms of archetypal imagery and the collective unconscious: in Germany, "you have the saviour complex as mass psychology. The saviour complex is an archetypal image of the collective unconscious, and it quite naturally becomes activated in an epoch so full of trouble and disorientation as ours."
I have always compared notes with Freud and Adler. ... We [Swiss] are liberal and we try to see things side by side, together. From my point of view the best thing is to say that obviously there are thousands of people who have a Freudian psychology and thousands who have an Adlerian psychology. Some [Freudians] seek gratification of desire and some others [Adlerians] fulfilment of power and yet others [Jungians] want to see the world as it is and leave things in peace.These lectures—along with Man and his Symbols—provide an accessible starting point to Jung's groundbreaking psychology.