Reflections Based on an Email to the Occidental Observer...General View of Nationalism from Jung & Reich

This is an email I sent to The Occidental Observer. I must compliment @The_Rebbe_ , thanking him for the feeling that I am not alone in this approach to understanding nationalism and group ID. Without his input and our exchanges, I would not have published this.

My E-Mail to The Occidental Observer.

I do appreciate your articles here, but I thought I would make my comment known through an email for reasons you might easily imagine.  I am doing research into the New School and I have found Culture of Critique very interesting. I think, Dr. MacDonald, you do need a theory of evil, so to speak, to be conjoined with your extroverted analysis of group behavior.

I will deal with that in a blog, but in the meantime, I believe I have insight into why nationalism of any sort fails all too often at this juncture in history.

I see references to" white nationalism" all the time here and elsewhere as I come to try to acquaint myself with the body of knowledge and beliefs in this area.

Nationalism fails today, white or otherwise, because most of the advanced nations of the world are populated by individuals whose capability for leadership is hampered by their being betwixt and between on the course between collectivism and true individualism.

Nationalism fails today because it is still necessarily collectivist. Collectivism involves projecting your own Self onto leaders who, in a very real sense, own your psyche. Collectivists are the "co-dependents" of the leader who offers a pseudo- and semi-solution to the very incomplete, wounded and sometimes malicious spirits who are his followers.

I come at this from my own experience of essentially a conversion phenomenon as I emerged from atheism during the isolation phase of primal therapy. I know well that many readers here (at Occidental Observer) seem to have an automatic dislike of Janov because he's Jewish, but I can tell you that this therapy can be helpful in actually developing individualism, especially with men and their wounded masculinity. Janov is anti-circumcision, by the way, hardly a view of traditional Judaism.

But, the main element that got activated in the isolation was connected to Carl Jung and his teachings, not Arthur Janov.

The developmental course has lasted over decades, but I don't want to get into that now. What I want to say is that if you want to construct a movement that would preserve and protect European-derived people and their culture from being extinguished, then you have to get behind an understanding of the point of view of Carl Jung, and I would add, of Gurdjieff and Joseph Campbell. Robert Graves and Wolfgang Pauli are also part of this.

The short version of Carl Jung's point of view, the essentials of the "alchemy", goes like this:

First: you must find the center of the psyche outside of the ego. This is the beginning of yielding the power of the ego back to the self, what Jung deems the divine within.

Second: you must begin to integrate the elements of the Self that were previously proscribed by the group, usually by the parents who were the funnels of group value.

Third: as you complete a kind of 360° view of yourself, to proceed, you must understand your own bad side to end the projection of your own shadow onto others.

Fourth: you undergo rebirth with a new kind of ego construct which is derived from the Self, your own version of the God Mercury or a manifest Christ, a person capable of conscious suffering, of bearing the burden of being his real self.

(Essentially, you can now live under the aegis of the feeling function. This "feeling" is not sentimentality, and is the outward projection of the body as sensation conjoined with the mind as thought. It is truly an expression of "soul".)

This is called the First Marriage.

The Second Marriage happens in middle-age and is a marriage of this remade, resubordinate ego with the anima, to create, once again, another derivation from the unconscious that has a similar function as Mercury or Christ. You would be "self-overcome", and not just. You are able to understand the flow and flux of the world, having a sense of your own development and why particular challenges and strife seem to head your way.

Essentially what socialization does is remove the spontaneous, natural and necessary connection of the ego to the greater psyche which gave birth to it. This severs thought/interpretation from sensation and wounds the feeling-function, affecting all relationships without and within the psyche.

Jung describes this very well in Memories, Dreams, Reflections while reacting to his conversation with a Pueblo Indian, realizing how Romanization destroyed the Celts as whole humans.

All inclusion in groups of any consequence involves a kind of wounding that corresponds to the wounding of the god Vulcan, a wounding that guarantees that the wounded individual will not leave the group with his skill and technique so as to be of value to the enemy.

In that sense, collectivism is a divination of the group, for which reason the leader must necessarily be considered divine. The Latin word for king, the “Rex”, indicated that he did the “reckoning” for the group and then you obeyed.  We see the power of this projection in the killing of anyone in (eg) who cast a shadow on the Hawaiian kings of old.

After your connection to what Carlos Castaneda called “the link to the spirit”  is severed, then, and only then, are you recognized and appreciated as a member of the group.

Group psychology is then designed to create mores that sustain the self-esteem of both the group and the individuals which comprise it. In other words, rationale is created that diminishes the group's possible negative view of itself, while accentuating the bad side of other groups.

Once an individual, through his own evolution within, or better yet, under the aegis of the unconscious and the Self, sees beyond the group mentality, he must, to some extent, become an enemy of the group, and if the group is organized, then he's an enemy of the state, a great term that all of you know was invented by Lenin.

So, what to do?

Work on your own self and your own individuation and become a source of knowledge and support for the similar-minded. Only when a certain critical mass is achieved can societal norms and institutions undergo failure, be extinguished and reformed by truly conscious individuals with true charisma.