ABSTRACT
If Carl Jung failed to establish that Wotan was a separate archetypal personality or provide adequate evidence for pagan activity, there was one other area where he sought to use archetypal theory and that was his interpretation of Hitler. Jung contrasted the energized charismatic stature of Hitler as an orator with his insignificance on other occasions. In the Knickerbocker interview, Jung briefly wrote about a German inferiority complex that was based on their missing the empire-building phase of European history and their defeat in World War One. In the post-war era Jung largely abandoned his use of the theories of the collective to explain political events and his references to Hitler became more concerned with accounting for Hitler and Germany's history with arguments based on recent historical trends and generalisations extended from psychopathology that were then applied to national psychology.
