Hermann Hesse and the Notion of the Ful Entity of Man in the Literature of Our Century

Authors

Albert Bettex

Keywords

Entity of Man, SAHS, Hermann Hesse

Abstract

In 1929, four years before Hitler came to power in Germany, C.G. Jung published an essay on "Women in Europe". In this essay the Swiss psychologist , no doubt a shrewd observer, also deals with a few general aspects of the human situation of that time. He discovers tendencies in the minds of many of his contemporaries . First "a growing disgust at one sided attitudes which do not make sense" . He was thinking, among other things, of the increclible chaos of doubtful, dogmatic philosophies of the late 1920's, many of which were offered as promises of salvation to mankinnd . Among these ideologies-national socialism, communism, spiritism, Freudianism. , and so on - there was almost everything, between the beliefs of those who proclaimed that Christ would corme back to this world within the next ten or twenty years , and those who thought that nudism was the great message of the future . Toward this chaos of one sided programmatlc manifestos , Jw1g saw- a growing aversion of many of his contemporaries - an aversion towards the modern fragmentation of human substance , a protest against rather cheap patterns of life which compelled man to live and to think and to feel in a one-sided way and to suppress his richer possibilities of development.

Recommended Citation

Bettex, Albert (1966) "Hermann Hesse and the Notion of the Ful Entity of Man in the Literature of Our Century," Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter: Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_newsletter/vol2/iss1/4