How do we experience the first nine months of our lives in the womb? What happens during and immediately after birth? And how are these primary experiences processed by the individual, in society and in culture? In this book, Ludwig Janus, a leading specialist in the field of prenatal psychology, undertakes a reassessment of prenatal and birth experiences for what is relevant to the experience and behavior of the individual and the specific manifestations in art, religion and politics, based on many years of research.