Jung and Nazi Germany: The Facts, the Context

Jung has been criticized for having accepted the chairmanship of the Société médicale internationale de psychothérapie and making pronouncements which could be interpreted as being pro-Nazi. Indeed, some of his utterances are eminently disputable, but this article intends to show that they should be interpreted otherwise than as the emanation of mere pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic sympathies. They are to examined in light of both his disappointment in his relationship with Freud and his theory of evil.