ABSTRACT
The phrase 'mind and earth' has a slightly poetic ring. Modern psychopathology has in its possession a wealth of observations regarding psychic activities that are entirely analogous to conscious functions and yet are unconscious. Archetypes are systems of readiness for action, and at the same time images and emotions. As life precedes the primordial image fades and is replaced by a conscious, relatively individual image, which is assumed to be the only mother-image. The most immediate is the primordial image of the mother; she is in every way the nearest and most powerful experience, and the one which occurs during the most impressionable period of man's life. Mother Germania is for the Germans, like la douce France for the French, a figure of the utmost importance behind the political scene, who could be overlooked only by blinkered intellectuals. The archetype of the mother is the most immediate one for the child.
