ABSTRACT
The course of events suggest that a civilization in the throes of profound structural change was looking to the Aryan myth for a more satisfactory explanation of its roots and ultimate direction. In combination, The result factors provided the Aryan myth with most of its strength and distinctive characteristics. Originally this paragon of humankind had made its home in the harsh isolation of the high plateaux of Asia, where it had lived to perfect social conventions. However, in the course of time, it had spread across the world bringing Civilization in its train. Thus, Jones, Wallace and Schelling regarded the coloured races as an instrument or primary matter of Destiny whose fate it was eventually to disappear from History. Though psychoanalysis and socio-psychoanalysis evidently can never justify the myth, they can at least attempt to explain it. Whether the analysis is applied to Gobineau's Essai sur inegalite des races humaines, the nineteenth-century mania for things Indian, or, indeed, to Nazism.
