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The Collective Unconscious of the University of London’s German Studies Collections: Reflecting, Resisting and Remaking Anglo-German Relations on Library Shelves in the Era of the World Wars

The Collective Unconscious of the University of London’s German Studies Collections: Reflecting,... Andrea Meyer Ludowisy, Richard Espley, Ulrich Tiedau The Collective Unconscious of the University of London’s German Studies Collections Reflecting, Resisting and Remaking Anglo-German Relations on Library Shelves in the Era of the World Wars The collective unconscious – so far as we can say anything about it at all – appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents […]. We can therefore study the collec- tive unconscious in two ways, either in mythology or in the analysis of the individual. (Carl Jung, The Structure of the Psyche, par. 325) 1 Introduction The relevance of libraries, archives and museum collections as varieties of insti- tutional cultural capital (Bourdieu) has long been a feature of academic debate and historians have developed an impressive body of scholarship over the last decades. However, the history of German Studies collections in Britain and their role as agents of intercultural transfer between the two countries has received little attention. Collections such as the manifold German holdings at the Univer- sity of London and its constituent colleges brought together private, public, and military activity and we argue that they served as potent symbols, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angermion de Gruyter

The Collective Unconscious of the University of London’s German Studies Collections: Reflecting, Resisting and Remaking Anglo-German Relations on Library Shelves in the Era of the World Wars

Meyer Ludowisy, Andrea; Espley, Richard; Tiedau, Ulrich
Angermion , Volume 15 (1): 36 – Nov 21, 2022
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Andrea Meyer Ludowisy, Richard Espley, Ulrich Tiedau The Collective Unconscious of the University of London’s German Studies Collections Reflecting, Resisting and Remaking Anglo-German Relations on Library Shelves in the Era of the World Wars The collective unconscious – so far as we can say anything about it at all – appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents […]. We can therefore study the collec- tive unconscious in two ways, either in mythology or in the analysis of the individual. (Carl Jung, The Structure of the Psyche, par. 325) 1 Introduction The relevance of libraries, archives and museum collections as varieties of insti- tutional cultural capital (Bourdieu) has long been a feature of academic debate and historians have developed an impressive body of scholarship over the last decades. However, the history of German Studies collections in Britain and their role as agents of intercultural transfer between the two countries has received little attention. Collections such as the manifold German holdings at the Univer- sity of London and its constituent colleges brought together private, public, and military activity and we argue that they served as potent symbols,

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Published: Nov 21, 2022

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