Internal Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Reading the Jungian Shadow

Internal Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Reading the Jungian Shadow
ISBN-10
1793607133
ISBN-13
9781793607133
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
227
Language
English
Published
2020-10-07
Publisher
Lexington Books
Author
Ștefan Bolea

Description

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.

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