JUNG AND POLITICS: The Political and Social Ideas of C. G. Jung

May be it is the author's name, its spelling, its pronunciation, whatever, but I do not have a clue why this book is not a best seller. Sure there are good books on the market that shine a light on the politics of our era, but none of them comes close to getting to the heart of the matter like this one does (ok, let me be honest, I did not read all of them, there are too many). Most of the commentators writing today are still followers of the Enlightenment: "it's all rational"-school of thought, ignoring the science of depth psychology which has shone a light on our deepest motivations, the dark undercurrents of our being. Jung's ideas are important here. Odajnyk (I hope I spelled that right) gathers Jung's ideas on politics and social development from all over Jung's extensive collected works, and presents them in a clear and understandable fashion. You do not have to be a "Jung-ian" to like it (I am not). It is often profound. You will exclaim: "OMG, so that is what is happening!!" Ortega y Gasset's "The revolt of the masses" is a further (and brilliant) exploration of some of the same themes (written in the 1930's it is as relevant as any of the new books written now - which anyhow often borrow from his ideas in some fashion).Jung's conclusions for what would help save our hapless masses is alas daunting, and I feel, highly unlikely to be taken up by the great mass of people. That it would be the right thing to do, as he prescribes, is hard to argue against, though a lot of deconstructionista will do so, while deconstructing our world into destruction and chaos. Ah... but what is a few million years of recovery for the universe after some nuclear hell?