PEP | Article - C. G. Jung: Civilization in Transition. Translated by R. F. C. Hull. New York: Pantheon Books, 1964, (Bollingen Series XX), XI + 618 pp.

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Abstract

The book centers in the relation of the individual to contemporary society, especially in the chapters on “The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man” and “The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man” . The theme develops the theory (first formulated in the 1918 paper on “The Role of the Unconscious”) that the First World War was basically a psychological crisis originating in the collective unconscious. In another essay from 1936, Wotan is seen as an archetype of the German unconscious which found expression