I picked up Hermann Hesse’s “Demian” and believed it could act as a pallet cleanser after my binge-reading of books revolving around jungian psychology.
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Haha, bad call! Already in the introduction I read that before writing the book in 1920 “Hesse began to explore the writings of Freud and Jung on dreams and archetypes”. Something that apparently influenced his writing to a large extent! 😂
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Was this synchronicity (or a meaningful coincidence) at play, to use a concept introduced by Carl Jung? 🤔
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I failed in my mission to move away from Jung, but the book started off so strong that I couldn’t put it aside. Now it is finished and a review is on it’s way! 👌🏻
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“When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn’t inside us can’t excite us.”
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Hermann Hesse – Demian