I've voted.Originally Posted by Virgil
I've voted.
Oh cool! It seems to have taken a nice lead right now. Let's hope it holds on.I've voted.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
Didn't understand the ending at all (the carnival).
J
EDIT: Uh, the 'Magic Theater.' Something about posture towards life?
Last edited by Jack of Hearts; 12-08-2011 at 01:56 AM.
This reader now has understanding of this book. Steppenwolf is a (more) metaphorical account of Jung's process of individuation (they were friends, Hesse was a huge admirer of analytic psychology). It's pretty blatant.
Hesse's work and analytic psychology are inextricably linked, such as Glass Bead Game and Psychological Types. There's probably no way you can understand its intended meaning without having encountered Jung's corpus-- unless Jung was 'right' and you understand it intuitively from the framework of his posited archetypes that exist in the unconscious.
There was no 'merging' of anything or 'deconstructing a narrative.' The narrative is not stylized, it is a direct incarnation from a lecture/essay in collected works of C.G. Jung.
J
Last edited by Jack of Hearts; 05-07-2013 at 05:05 AM.
Just finished reading Steppenwolf a few weeks ago. It was existentially a good read. I'm currently reading other books, by Celine actually, and then I'll get back to Hesse again.
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