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Reading Goethe at midlife : ancient wisdom, German classicism, and Jung

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: (Zurich lecture series in analytical psychology)New Orleans Spring Journal Books c2011Description: xviii, 257p.; bibliog. notes; indexContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781935528104
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Contents:
1 The stages of life and the midlife crisis: a brief history of an idea. 2 The turning point in life: what conflict the sun must experience at midday!. 3 Goethe's Orphism. 4 Primal words: Orphic
Abstract: '...reveals the remarkable symmetry between the ideas of Jung and Goethe. Jung's analysis of the stages of life, and his advice to heed the "call of the self," are brought into conjunction with Goethe's emphasis on the importance of hope, showing an underlying continuity of thought and relevance from ancient wisdom, via German classicism, to analytical psychology.'
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1 The stages of life and the midlife crisis: a brief history of an idea. 2 The turning point in life: what conflict the sun must experience at midday!. 3 Goethe's Orphism. 4 Primal words: Orphic

'...reveals the remarkable symmetry between the ideas of Jung and Goethe. Jung's analysis of the stages of life, and his advice to heed the "call of the self," are brought into conjunction with Goethe's emphasis on the importance of hope, showing an underlying continuity of thought and relevance from ancient wisdom, via German classicism, to analytical psychology.'

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