Steppenwolf and Abraxas – Hermann Hesse and C.G. Jung revisited
The things we see are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them...
View ArticleHow to write a great blog
Reblogged from Cristian Mihai: First, I'd like to say that there is no how-to guide or recipe for writing a brilliant post. That being said, I'd also like to point out the fact that some posts seem to...
View ArticleBlogsphere as Hesse’s Glass Bead Game against the ‘Feuilletonistic‘ world
In Herman Hesse’s final novel The Glass Bead Game, which won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, he introduces essentially a hypothetical meta game, which has been compared with a “neural...
View ArticleLast Print Newsweek – some thought on New Years Eve 2012/13.
Today I received the last print of the Newsweek. From now on all my information (and 5% of the new books) will be electronically, that is to say via Internet. I discarded all unreliable sources like TV...
View ArticleJungian Archetype Checklist for Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
In his masterwork The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien created what he called a “new mythos”. There is undoubtedly much in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings that invites us seeing it through the Jungian...
View ArticleArchtype of the vampire in todays culture of Narcissism
The vampire breaks the rules of the gods, society or nature, sometimes maliciously sometimes cunning or foolish or both. This article wants to explore the connection between Narcissism, Vampires and...
View ArticleShakespeare’s “Macbeth” from a Jungian view
When they all know the good as good, there arises the recognition of evil. This article explores the psychological underpinnings of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” from a Jungian view. Carl Jung left a great...
View ArticleDante’s Divine Comedy – symbolism and archetypes
Dante is not just any poet. With his epic poem “Commedia”, in English “Divine Comedy” he created an Italian cultural Monument, a journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise full of symbols,...
View ArticleFaust and C.G. Jung – What holds the world together at its core
Goethe and C.G. Jung “Faust I”, the Germans’ favorite drama is about a scholar who wants the impossible, who wants to know what keeps the world together at heart. Goethe’s Faust failed on this worldly...
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