Prof Paul Bishop – Goethe and Jung on the Stages of Life
What are the different models of the stages of life? And which models are more useful?
According to Goethe, “the human being must be ruined” and the “natural genius“ experiences a “renewed puberty“ (in conversation with Eckermann, 11 March 1828). Was Goethe right?
In this talk, Paul will discuss the notion of the stages of life, a prominent idea in Jungian psychotherapy but also found in Goethe’s conversations with Eckermann. Particular attention will be given to Goethe’s late, great poem, “Urworte. Orphisch“ (i.e., “Primal Word. Orphic“), which presents itself as an exercise in latter-day Orphism, and under the Greek concepts of ΔΑΙΜΩΝ = Dämon (daimon), ΤΥΧΗ = das Zufällige (Chance), ΕΡΩΣ = Eros (Love), ΑΝΑΓΚΗ = Notwendigkeit (Necessity), and ΕΔΠΙΣ = Hoffnung (Hope), and offers — in poetic form and under the guise of Orphic teaching — an account of life in five stages.
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About the speaker:
Paul Bishop is Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of various studies on Weimar Classicism, German Romanticism, analytical psychology, and the vitalist philosophy of Ludwig Klages. His most recent publication is Wolfram von Eschenbach and the Grail as Transformation (Chiron, 2024), the first of four planned volumes in a project entitled Jung and the Epic of Transformation.
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Paul BishopAuthor, Honorary Professorial Research FellowPaul Bishop is Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of various studies on Weimar Classicism, German Romanticism, analytical psychology, and the vitalist philosophy of Ludwig Klages. His most recent publication is Wolfram von Eschenbach and the Grail as Transformation (Chiron, 2024), the first of four planned volumes in a project entitled Jung and the Epic of Transformation.
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