ABSTRACT
This chapter asks how Jung would view the populist, ethno-nationalist and New Right movements of today. It discusses both weak and strong cultural and political movements as part of the splintering and desperate effort to find some anchoring identity in the age of neoliberalism. New Right/Alt-Right intellectuals are explicitly anti-liberal, so it is profitable to turn to the writings of two prominent figures in the contemporary New Right: Alain de Benoist and Alexander Dugin. Both identify the liberal individualism and political atomism of the Enlightenment as the starting point for the modern confusion about identity, and both aim their barbs at liberal shibboleths such as individualism, universal human rights, free-market economics and the idea that liberal democracy is the best form of government for all. Instead they champion cultural particularity, and each in their own way envision a world in which cultures are stronger partly by excluding those who do not belong to them. Each in their own way advocate for a turn towards older, pagan or traditional, forms of religious belief and worship. They err, however, from the Jungian perspective, because they unwittingly erect yet another political religion.
