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Article: Jung and National Socialism.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
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- March 1, 2005
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SIR: In the conclusion to his interesting article "The Psychopathology of Terrorism" (January-February 2005), Dr Galak includes a reference to Jung's "break-up" with Freud, and then suggests that such was the severity to which Jung was thereby "scarred" that this "gifted and talented physician" sought "shelter in the seductive simplicity of National Socialism".
Such a benign judgment misreads or is uninformed by the available evidence, both as to the extent of Jung's fellow-travelling with aspects of the Nazi worldview, and as to the charge that Jung was a charlatan. This evidence, some of it comparatively recent, is fairly set forth in the The Seduction of ...