ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how Carl Jung applied his theories and how successful he was in attempting to provide evidence for them. It shows that the Nazi authority's attitude to neo-paganism was more contradictory and erratic than Jung implied. The chapter suggests that the neo-pagans in the Nazi movement derived many of their ideas from Volkisch and Romantic roots, and this cultural influence gave Jung the evidence he mis-took as proof for his archetypal hypothesis. In Wotan, Jung was attempting to give an archetypal explanation of Nazi Germany and a warning about the prospect of war. Jung sought to use Wotan to provide him with both the cause of Germany's discord and an explanation of how people were affected. Jung claimed to have predicted the future of Germany after reviewing many dreams that he thought gave an insight into the collective unconscious and the course of events.
