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Jung’s well-known Wotan article, first published in 1936 and then again in 1946, identified this Norse god as the key archetypal lodestar for understanding the essence of the German nation. To appreciate just how inappropriate it was sociologically, one needs to place it in its historical context of German cultural revival at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, with strong political roots. Jung’s article is very much a child of the völkisch movement of that time. But 21st century symbolic anthropology has produced an attractive alternative model of archetypal Jungian sociology through writers like Clifford Geertz, shorn of Jung’s long-term timeframes.