The god of madness is back with a vengeance
7 min readMar 30
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Wotan, the god of frenzy and possession in Germanic paganism, was seen by the eminent Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung as the mythological figure, representing a psychic force, behind the rise of Hitler and the Nazis — and Jung, shortly before he died in 1961, predicted a future worldwide ‘Wotanistic experiment’. Today, it seems Wotan’s time has come again
