Originally published in 1941, the blurb read: "The aim of this work
is to state and understand the psychological dynamics of the
present conflict. The author is a medical psychologist who has had
unusual opportunities for studying German mentality. He
characterizes the condition of Germany as one of daemonic
possession and Hitler as the primitive medicine-man who gained a
magical ascendency by playing the role of medium to the German
unconscious. He analyses the fundamental instability of the
collective German psychology and relates this to the daemonic
outbreak. The ambiguous personality of the Fuhrer is seen as the
indispensable symbol of a deeply divided nation striving for unity.
Whereas the pagan-Christian conflict in the soul of Christendom is
urging individual consciousness to a new statement of human values,
it has produced in the soul of Germany a state of collective
intoxication which is the negation of individuality. This book is
the first serious attempt to depict the invisible underground
causes of the European catastrophe and to state the issue in terms
of epochal transition. It was German violence which started the
conflagration, but the fires of anti-Christian revolt have long
been smouldering in the general unconscious. Material of a varied
kind, gathered from German myth and legend and from a number of
contemporary witnesses has been pieced together into a
comprehensive psychological survey, embracing both the personal and
the impersonal aspects of the German scene. Hitler is discussed as
personality, as symbol, and as a disease. The influence of the
Wagnerian German myth upon Hitler's inflammable imagination is
discussed and the basic ideas of Hitlerism are traced to their
source. This is the attempt of psychology to elucidate the
irrational and unintelligible elements in the present chaos."
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