Archetypal shadow and music transformation in Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus Cover Image

Archetypický stín a transformace hudby v románu Thomase Manna Doktor Faustus
Archetypal shadow and music transformation in Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus

Author(s): David Kozel
Subject(s): Literary Texts, Psychology, Music
Published by: Spoločnosť pre estetiku na Slovensku a Inštitút estetiky a umeleckej kultúry Filozofickej fakulty Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove
Keywords: Thomas Mann;Doctor Faustus;Carl Gustav Jung;archetyp;the shadow;music;art;analytical psychology

Summary/Abstract: Archetypal shadow and music transformation in Thomas Mann's novel Doctor FaustusAbstract: The text deals with the novel Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann as a source of a musico-literary poetics and mythopoetics. The archetypical symbol of the shadow is interpreted and amplified through the literary character of Adrian Leverkühn and a broader imagination tendencies of art and society in the first half of the 20th century. For this goal have been used approaches of the deep hermeneutics and the analytical psychology. The motif of the Faust has strong potential to express not only an archetyp of the shadow, but its present is significant in the time of transformation and changes.

  • Issue Year: 3/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 43-51
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Czech