Internal Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Reading the Jungian Shadow

Stefan Bolea (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

218 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0712-6 (ISBN)

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This book analyzes the identity crisis found in nineteenth-century post-Romantic literature. By mirroring several Antihumanist theories through the Jungian theory of the shadow, the author argues that this literature anticipates our contemporary “internal conflict.”

Internal Conflict in Nineteenth-century Literature: Reading the Jungian Shadow” examines the genealogy of the Jungian shadow in Romantic and post-Romantic literature. Ştefan Bolea analyzes the way the crisis of identity in nineteenth-century literature prefigures our contemporary “inner discord” by means of the philosophy of literature, combining literary criticism with psychoanalytical phenomenology. This book provides a deep analysis of the connection between this “inner discord” and the century that brought us industrialization, nationalism, modernity, and the unconscious by comparing Jung’s theory of the shadow with Nietzche’s and Cioran’s versions of Antihumanism in a highly interdisciplinary landscape. Scholars of psychology, philosophy, literature, media studies, and history will find this book particularly useful.

Ştefan Bolea is associate lecturer in the Faculty of History and Philosophy at the Babeș-Bolyai University.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Shadow in Analytical Psychology
The Double and the Demonic
The Second I: E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Devil’s Elixirs (1816)
The North Pole of Being: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)
The Supershadow: E. A. Poe’s William Wilson (1839)
I against I: Dostoyevsky’s Double (1846)
The Shadow of Degeneration: Stevenson’s Strange Case... (1886)
Empty Mirror: Maupassant’s The Horla (1887)
Genesis of the Shadow: Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
The Shadow in Philosophy: Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1885)

Conclusion

Coda

Appendix 1. Year Zero. The avant-garde of the Avant-garde

Appendix 2. The 19th Century from Romanticism to Post-Romanticism (chronology)

Appendix 3. The Individuation from the Persona to the Self

Appendix 4. The Moments of the Shadow

Appendix 5. A Note on Archetypology

Appendix 6. The Shadow in Music

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 228 mm
Gewicht	526 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
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ISBN-10	1-7936-0712-5 / 1793607125
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-0712-6 / 9781793607126
Zustand	Neuware