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Is Modern Man Possessed by the Terrible Mother Archetype?

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Academy of Ideas

Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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“This is an exceedingly dangerous time and we are confronted with a problem which has never been known in the conscious history of man… This is not a light but a darkness; the powers of darkness are coming up…”   Carl Jung, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra According to Carl Jung, the primary forces which shape history are not […]

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0:00.0

This is an exceedingly dangerous time and we are confronted with a problem which has never been known in the conscious history of man.

0:07.5

This is not a light, but a darkness. The powers of darkness are coming up.

0:13.2

According to Carl Jung, the primary forces which shape history are not cultural, economic, or political, but psychological.

0:20.8

Specifically, he believed that the archetypes, the unconscious forces that all are not cultural, economic, or political, but psychological. Specifically, he believed that the archetypes, the unconscious forces that organize the psyche of man

0:26.6

and pattern his behavior, are the key factors that shape the rise and fall, vitality, and decay of civilizations.

0:33.6

The archetypes are the great decisive forces, They bring about the real events, explained Jung.

0:40.3

In this video, we examine Jung's claim that the rise of Nazi Germany was driven by the archetype of Wotan

0:46.3

possessing the minds of the German masses.

0:48.3

We then draw on the work of Young's student, Eric Neumann, to argue that the social and political

0:53.3

pathologies of our age

0:55.0

are outward signs that the archetype of the Terrible Mother grips the minds of many Western men and women.

1:01.0

The Terrible Mother is an enchantress who confuses the senses and drives men out of their minds.

1:07.0

Eric Neumann wrote in his magnum opus the origins and history of consciousness.

1:13.1

Jung distinguished two primary layers of the unconscious. The first is the personal unconscious,

1:18.9

which holds the forgotten memories, repressed emotions, and other elements of one's individual

1:23.8

history that lie outside of conscious awareness. The second is the collective unconscious.

1:30.3

Unlike the personal unconscious, which is unique to each person, the collective unconscious

1:35.3

is universal and shared by all of humanity.

1:38.3

It consists of the inherited structures of the psyche that exist independently of personal experience. Chief among these are the archetypes, primordial images, forces, and patterns that shape

1:49.0

how we experience, interpret, and respond to the world.

1:53.0

As Jung wrote, the archetypes are formal factors responsible for the organization of unconscious

1:58.0

psychic processes.

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