Mankind in Amnesia

By: Immanuel Velikovsky

Narrated by: Lee Goettl

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.

©2010 Shulamit V. Kogan and Ruth V. Sharon (P)2022 Tantor

excellent and interesting take on human history

excellent and interesting take on human history as a whole. I've been reading and listening through the entirety of Velikovsky's works. look forward to more audio books.

the last part is the best

perfect timing of the release of this book
very relevant especially nowadays when Russia threatens with nuclear attacks

ancient apocalypse

a little hard to follow but overall very intriguing and thought provoking. I would definitely recommend this book.

Classic work

Combined with Earth in Upheaval and Worlds in Collision, these are classic works that every person should read. Well worth the time.