Riots: When the Collective Catches Fire

This Jungian Life Podcast · Jun 4, 2020 · 1h 2m

DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠How can we understand the psychological wild fire of rioting? Jung, who lived through two world wars, understood that mass movements had the power to manifest archetypal energy. The urge to unleash destructive chaos is depicted in mythologies around the world. Early Norse warriors attained battle-crazed states as "berserkers," and Cu Chulainn, a mythological Irish warrior, killed both friends and foe. Eris, the Greek goddess of discord and strife, started the Trojan War, and Kali, a Hindu god whose name derives from suffer, hurt…