Unconsciously drawn, the image of the wound can be related to Jospeph Beuys' 1985 speech, "Talking about One's own Country, Germany" in which he refers to the pyschological wound of a Nazi past to which his work was a response. Paradoxically, this wound can also make reference to Jung's idea of the collective arm: 'One could as easily speak of the "collective arm" - meaning the basic pattern of bones and muscles which all human arms share in common'. Stan Gooch, Total Man (London 1975) p. 433