ABSTRACT
This chapter explores two more meanings of the concept of primitivity in Jung's work, which are based on the differences between primitive as infantile and primitive as signifying primordial and original, therefore promising rebirth. Jung applied the term primitive to both Jews and Germanic people, yet with very different meanings, correlated to these two basic definitions of the term. In the case of 'Jewish psychology', Jung described Jews as infantile, materialistic, rootless, and effeminate. These ideas were based on age-old anti-Jewish stereotypes first promulgated by Christians as part of their axe to grind against the people they held to be Christ's murderers, yet secularized and made the stuff of racial science beginning in the eighteenth century. The changing definition of the primitive or the archaic along racial and religious lines is evident in Jung's work as early as 1912, and in numerous writings throughout the Weimar and Nazi eras.
