The Poltergeist and the Dictator
(This article is the short version of “Actualization of the Shadow Archetype in the Figure of the Nazi Dictator” published in the volume of the International Conference 2400 Aristotle, Bucharest, 2016)
I wrote a few articles about the shadow archetype but I only referred to the personal shadow and since the shadows of us all form the collective shadow; Jung also called this form of the archetype the jester, the trickster or the poltergeist. Here we’ll have to also discuss the psychology of the masses. I’ll give an example of a dictator so that everyone is able to see what can happen and how to prevent this. We need to see how this type of shadow forms and here I’ll tell you about Jung’s theory and only after I’ll show you how this can be expanded to the figure of the dictator and why the psychology of the masses is very important and useful tool.
Introduction to the Archetypes
According to the psychoanalyst there are two psychic systems. The conscience that has a personal nature; here we find the actualization of the personal shadow that until thus moment resides in the personal unconscious, a sort of appendix of the first. The second physic system is the collective unconscious that contains all the archetypes as a type of a priori forms that are inherited. This means that we have a historical aspect of the unconscious through which the…
