Goethe's Faust and the Myth of Modern Man

摘要: The drama of Faust opens with an encounter the Lord and Mephisto in negotiation about soul human being; it is completed revelation a transformed God-image, that is, hymn on Eternal Feminine. In between long process can be traced, full opportunities failures. carried by being Faust—though, unfortunately, unconscious to him. He represents whose wholeness seeks realization. driven thirst for knowledge, hunger life, desire prestige outer world, and—last but not least—by unappeased yearning love. Enthralled creative urge, he does see demonic side psychic forces which gets involved, so falls victim them. becomes entangled darkness all possible guilt. It seems task our time become conscious ambivalence spirit nature—here represented Mephisto—to realize revealed symbols reconciliation and...