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Informationen zum Autor Stefan Bolea is associate lecturer in the Faculty of History and Philosophy at the Babes?-Bolyai University. Klappentext 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." Zusammenfassung 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.” Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1.The Shadow in Analytical Psychology 2.The Double and the Demonic 3.The Second I: E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Devil's Elixirs (1816) 4.The North Pole of Being: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) 5.The Supershadow: E. A. Poe's William Wilson (1839) 6.I against I: Dostoyevsky's Double (1846) 7.The Shadow of Degeneration: Stevenson's Strange Case... (1886) 8.Empty Mirror: Maupassant's The Horla (1887) 9.Genesis of the Shadow: Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) 10.The Shadow in Philosophy: Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1885) 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
