A Psychological Approach to Goethe’s Faust
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A single lecture presenting Goethe’s Faust as the prototype of modern man. Related book: Goethe’s Faust: Notes for a Jungian Commentary (1990).
Edward F. Edinger
Edward F. Edinger (1922–1998) was an American psychiatrist and Jungian analyst, widely regarded as one of the most important interpreters of Jung. Trained in medicine at Yale, he worked in analysis with Esther Harding and was a founding member and later president of the C.G. Jung Foundation in New York. In 1979 he moved to Los Angeles, where he was a senior analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute and gave the lecture series recorded here. His books include Ego and Archetype (1972), The Creation of Consciousness (1984), Anatomy of the Psyche (1985) and many volumes drawn from his lectures.
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Part 1: A Psychological Approach to Goethe's Faust
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On the Faust legend, especially as elaborated by Goethe, who reworked existing material. The legend began with a real Dr Johann Faustus (c. 1480–1540), whose historical person was obscured by projected legend, much as with Christ. His contemporaries included Luther, Leonardo, Paracelsus, Columbus, Erasmus, Copernicus, Vesalius and Machiavelli. Faust is the prototype of modern man, whose curiosity leads into forbidden regions.