Goethe, Faust, Alchemy, and Jung

Jantz, Harold

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“…In an article from 1954, Gustav F. Hartlaub, drawing on Jung's work, examined the importance of alchemy for Goethe, with particular reference to Faust (Hartlaub, 1954). By 1962, however, Harold Jantz had written a highly perceptive and extremely critical article in The German Quarterly, highlighting some of the fallacies of Jung's approach (Jantz, 1962). In the meantime, there have been several book-length treatments, including the short monograph by the analytical psychologist Edward F. Edinger (1990) and, about a decade ago, the extensive study in German by Irene Gerber-Mü nch (1997).…”

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The Superman as salamander: symbols of transformation or transformational symbols?

Bishop

2011

International Journal of Jungian Studies

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Taking its cue from David Holt's discussion of Jung and Marx in relation to alchemy, Christianity, and the work against Nature, this paper discusses Goethe, Nietzsche, and Jung in relation to alchemy and the work on the self. It focuses on the idea of transformation as central to Jung's understanding of both Goethe's Faust and Nietzsche's Thus spoke Zarathustra. And it argues that, in alchemical terms, the Superman becomes the salamander – while suggesting, in the hidden and unspoken part of its title, that the Superman does not just become a salamander, he becomes the philosophers’ stone.

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