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The construct of the ‘mana personality’ in Jung’s works: a historic‐hermeneutic perspective. Part II
Author(s) -
Sorge Giovanni V.R.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of analytical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-5922
pISSN - 0021-8774
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5922.12598
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , perspective (graphical) , psychology , personality , analytical psychology , personality psychology , epistemology , psychoanalysis , social psychology , philosophy , computer science , programming language , artificial intelligence
This is the second part of an article that tries to provide a framework of understanding of, and a seminal reflection on, a highly interesting yet little explored psychological construct of Jung’s analytical psychology, namely the ‘mana personality’. Here I take into consideration some issues around the ‘saviour complex’, discussed in Jung’s seminar on Nietzsche’s Zarathustra , concerning both the psychological analysis of the individual and the socio‐political level related to the collective horizon of the 1930s. Moreover, I consider the continuity of Jung’s analysis of such issues in other works such as ‘Psychology and national problems’ (1936), Symbols of Transformation (1952), and Aion (1950). I finally make some suggestions concerning Jung’s apparent hermeneutic tendency to apply the construct of the mana personality to collective historical phenomena.