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More from Jung on Wotan and Wind from _Civilization In Transition_:

It is above all the Germans who have an opportunity, perhaps unique in
history, to look into their own hearts and learn what those perils of
the soul were from which Christianity tried to rescue mankind. Germany
is a land of spiritual catastrophes, where nature never makes more than
a pretense of peace with world-ruling reason. The disturber of the peace
is a wind that blows into Europe from Asia's vastness, sweeping in on a
wide front from Thrace to the Baltic, scattering the nations before it
like dry leaves or inspiring thoughts that shake the world to its
foundations. It is an elemental Dionysus breaking into the Apollonian
order. The rouser of this tempest is named Wotan, and we can learn a
good deal about him from the political confusion and spiritual upheaval
he has caused throughout history. For a more exact investigation of his
character, however, we must go back to the age of myths, which did not
explain everything in terms of man and his limited capacities but sought
the deeper cause in the psyche and its autonomous powers. Man's earliest
intuitions personified these powers as gods, and described them in the
myths with great care and circumstantiality according to their various
characters. This could be done more readily on account of the firmly
established primordial images which are innate in the unconscious of
many races and exercise a direct influence upon them. Because the
behaviour of a race takes on its specific character from its underlying
images we can speak of an archetype, "Wotan." As an autonomous psychic
factor, Wotan produces effects in the psychic life of a people and
thereby reveals his own nature. For Wotan has a peculiar biology of his
own, quite apart from the nature of man. It is only from time to time
that individuals fall under the irresistible influence of this
unconscious factor. When it is quiescent, one is no more aware of the
archetype Wotan than of latent epilepsy. Could the Germans of 1914 have
foreseen what they would be today (1936)? Such amazing transformations
are the effect of the god of the wind, that "bloweth where it listeth,
and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh,
nor whither it goeth." It seizes everything in its path and overthrows
everything that is not firmly rooted. When the wind blows it shakes
everything that is insecure, whether without or within.