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R S McCully

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PubMed1983

The nature of collective movements: the hidden second force.

While C. G. Jung postulated a nonpersonal, collective layer within psychic structure, it is often overlooked that he came to this conclusion from studying the effects of the content of this layer on human perception. Few other scientists have grasped the significance of Jung's point that energy from the collective layer has the power to influence, alter, or color human perception. This paper attempts to apply Jung's discovery to better understand the processes involved in collective movements when they affect considerable numbers of people. It is suggested that powerful collective movements have two sources of energy, one is the conscious aims of collective movements, while another, encompassing activated collective substance represents nonconscious contents. It is suggested that the nonconscious current acts remarkably similar to psychic forces that empower obsessions. The feminist movement is examined through these postulates as one of the powerful collective movements in today's world.

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PubMed1980

A commentary on Adolf Eichmann's Rorschach.

A Rorschach was administered to Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961 at the time of his trial for war crimes. The recent publication of this protocol offers an opportunity to compare his personal world against opinions formed about him by observers at his trial. Various professionals certified Eichmann as a banal, ordinary man, and a societal theory was proposed about Nazism based in part on impressions of Eichmann as an uncomplicated man. This commentary examines Eichmann's protocol and provides an opinion that in several important respects his record includes features uncharacteristic of an ordinary, banal mind.

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PubMed1978

The laugh of Satan: a study of a familial murderer.

A teenage murderer who killed his mother, his tiny half-brother, and his step-father was studied through the imagery he associated to three different editions of inkblots. These sets included the Rorschach, Behn-Rorschach, and Ka-Ro plates. The data were used to theorize about clues, dynamics, and diagnosis in this extreme case of adolescent violence. Family background and developmental history are included. The author takes the position that a conventional analysis of these data alone is not sufficient to fully understand familial murderers. Several of C.G. Jung's concepts, notably his view about the power of shadow-projections to influence conscious percepts and his philosophy about evil as a collective phenomenon, were used to speculate about ways we might extend our understanding of this subject's extreme form of violence. Defining the archetype as an energy-complex, the discussion theorized about possible ways different forms of paranoid ideation may arise.

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