Quantcast
Channel: Literature – stOttilien
Browsing all 9 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

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 Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

How 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Blogsphere 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Last 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Jungian 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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Archtype 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Shakespeare’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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Dante’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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Faust 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...

View Article

Browsing all 9 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images