Northern gnosis. Thor, Baldr and Völsungs in the thoughts of Freud and Jung

Is it possible to understand the stories of northern mythology through the prism of theories of Freud and Jung? K.G. Jung considered psychology a modern form of myth. The archetypal structures, the psychological theories described by him not only explain our mental life in a scientific life, the soul is also expressed in them. This book, inspired by such an understanding, explores the works of Freud and Jung in the light of northern mythology. Ideas such as mental reality, the ego-ideal, Participation Mystique and libido become on its pages the figures of Thor, Baldra and Volsung. Thus, the main texts of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology are the true pantheon of the gods. The theory of Jung"s archetypes is read as an option of ancient stories about the meetings of the Thor with giants. Freud"s theories about the instinct of death, a neurotic repetition, sorrow and the ego-ideal turn out to be options for the legends about the death of Baldra, and the tense relations of Freud, Jung and Sabina Spieline are considered as a reflection of the saga about Volsungs