Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse, (1877-1962), novelist and poet, born in Calw, Germany. He was a bookseller and antiquarian in Basel (1895-1902), and published his first novel in 1904. His works include "Rosshalde" (1914), "Siddhartha" (1922), "Steppenwolf" (1927), and "Das Glasperlenspiel" (1945), "The Glass Bead Game". He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. From 1911 he lived in Switzerland. His psycholgical and mystical concerns made him something of a cult figure after his death.
He was psychoanalyzed at one point by Carl Jung, and posthumously idolized by Ken Kesey and the merry pranksters, who felt that his "Journey to the East" epitomized their psychedelic quest to go "further".
"Everywhere on earth there are people of our kind. That for a small part of them, I can be a focal point, the nodal point in the net, is the burden and the joy of my life." (private letter, 1955)
Steps
from "The Glass Bead Game"
"As every blossom fades
and all youth sinks
into old age,
so every life's design,
each flower of wisdom,
every good attains its prime
and cannot last forever.
In life, each call the heart
must be prepared courageously
without a hint of grief,
submit itself to other new ties.
A magic dwells in each beginning,
protecting us
tells us how to live.
High purposed we must traverse
realm on realm,
cleaving to none as to a home,
the world of spirit
wishes not to fetter us
but raise us higher,
step by step.
Scarce in some safe
accustomed sphere of life
have we establish a house,
then we grow lax;
only he who is ready
to journey forth
can throw old habits off.
Maybe death's hour too
will send us out new-born
towards undreamed-lands,
maybe life's call to us
will never find an end
Courage my heart,
take leave and fare thee well."
Jung, Carl Gustav, (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist, born in Kesswil, Switzerland. He studied medicine at Basel, and worked at the Burghölzli mental clinic in Zurich (1900-9). He met Freud in Vienna in 1907, became his leading collaborator, and was president of the International Psychoanalytic
Association (1911-14). He became increasingly critical of Freud's approach, and Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido (1911-12, trans The Psychology of the Unconscious) caused a break in 1913. He then developed his own theories, which he called 'analytical psychology' to distinguish them from Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's individual psychology. Jung's approach included a description of psychologcial types ('extraversion/introversion'); the
exploration of the 'collective unconscious'; and the concept of the psyche as a 'self-regulating system' expressing itself in the process of 'individuation'. He held chairs at Basel and Zurich.
from "Magister Ludie" or "The Glass Bead Game"
By Herman Hesse
[Contents] |
[Foreword] |
[Introduction] |
[Formative Years] | [Space to Start] | [Tools of Trade] [Concept Renderings] | [First Break] | [East by Southeast] | [Working Manner] | [Space Transitions] | [Seasons' Home] | [Sunsets' Place] | [Pied á Terre] | [Something Different] | [Restrained Elegance] | [Dream Zones] | [In Comfort] [Prestige Investments] |
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