Mankind in Amnesia
Mankind in Amnesia by Immanuel Velikovsky, published by Paradigma Ltd in 2010, is a thought-provoking exploration of psychology and its implications for humanity. This later printing edition spans 186 pages and is presented in English. Velikovsky, drawing from his background as a psychologist and psychoanalytical therapist, examines the collective psyche of humanity rather than focusing on individual cases. He provides an overview of various psychoanalytical systems and delves into crowd psychology, revisiting his earlier work, Worlds in Collision, through a psychoanalytical lens.
Readers will find a comprehensive analysis that connects historical, religious, and mythological narratives to the collective trauma experienced by societies. Velikovsky reclassifies the theories of prominent figures like Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung, identifying a common foundation in their work. This book addresses the psychological reactions to his theories and offers insights into the broader implications for social science and applied psychology. Through this examination, Velikovsky presents a message that resonates with urgency and importance for understanding the future of humanity.
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Immanuel Velikovsky called this book the “fulfillment of his oath of Hippocrates – to serve humanity.” In this book he returns to his roots as a psychologist and psychoanalytical therapist, yet not with a single person as his patient but with humanity as a whole. After an extremely revealing overview of the foundations of the various psychoanalytical systems he makes the step into crowd psychology and reopens the case of Worlds in Collision from a totally different point of view: as a psychoanalytical case study. This way he shows that the blatant reactions to his theories (which are still going on today) have not been surprising but are actually inevitable from a psychological perspective – which equally holds for those who have defined our view of the world. At the same time he is able to reclassify the theories of Siegmund Freud and of C. G. Jung by finding a common basis for them. A journey through history, religion, mythology and art shows the overall range of the collective trauma and gives us – the patients – a message of extraordinary urgency and importance for the future.
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