The god of madness is back with a vengeance

Geoff Ward
7 min readMar 30

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

Geoff Ward

Writer, poet, tutor and mentor in literature and creative writing (MA and BA Hons degrees in English literature), book editor, journalist and musician.