A cruel and anxious obsession with health as a means of racial exclusion was a monstrous form of the modern turn inward to agency of body and mind. Nazi projects thus instrumentalized the individual and essentialized a self of race and will. The Nazis mobilized the professions of medicine and psychology, two disciplines built around self, to exploit physical and mental capacity. Illness in Nazi Germany was a site of contestation around the existing modem self. Sick heil: self and illness in Nazi Germany. © 2016, The Society of Analytical Psychology. It draws on evidence from archival and other primary sources. This present article demonstrates very significant changes in Jung's views during the important early part of this period, that is from January 1933 - when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany - through to the spring of 1934. Schoenl and Peck (2012) have shown how Jung's views of Nazi Germany changed from 1933 to March 1936. The paper then argues that after Gustav Bally's criticisms in the Neue Zuercher Zeitung in February 1934, Jung entered into a transitional period that spring during which he became warier both of the Nazis and of making any statements that could be construed as being anti-Semitic. It also presents evidence that, although he occasionally made some anti-Semitic statements during this early period, he was not anti-Semitic in the way the Nazis were. It brings forth evidence that, besides wanting to preserve psychotherapy in Germany and maintain the international connection between the German and other communities of psychotherapists, he wanted to advance Jungian psychology - his psychology - in Germany. This article first considers Jung's response to the coming to power of the Nazis in Germany. Jung's views of Nazi Germany: the first year and Jung's transition.
And it emphasizes the ideology of the Nazis, which in Nazi Germany inflamed the political sentiment of the masses and took the visual art as their important instrument of political propaganda, while Nazi party used visual art on anti-society and war which is worth warning and criticizing for later generation. The visual arts influence in Nazi Germanyĭirectory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)įull Text Available This article will discuss the influence of visual art in Nazi Germany from two parts of visual arts, which are political photography and poster propaganda, analyzing the unique social and historical stage of Nazi Germany.
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