ABSTRACT
This chapter explores several post-'Wotan' works in which Jung attempted to distance him from the Nazi reign of terror by emphatically denouncing Hitler and National Socialism. Several possible reasons may be given for the breach between Hauer and Jung. First, The German psychiatrist Oswald Bumke published a book called Psychoanalysis and Its Children: A Confrontation with Freud, Adler and Jung. The promise of Hauer and Hoffman to defend Jung satisfied neither him nor Jung's associate C. A. Meier, who assumed Bumke's devastating critique of both analytical psychologists represented official German opinion. Second, Hauer had already indicated in his report to Mergenthaler that the individualism in Jung's social circle hindered his full acceptance of Hauer's conviction that the racial collective held the most power and promise for a psycho-spiritual renewal. Finally, the invasion of Poland by Germany had shown the world that the forces of National Socialism were not the creative powers of life, but the destructive powers of greed and aggression.
