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UniversiV M icnailms International 300 N. Zeeb Road Ann Arbor, Ml 48106 8425548 Shafer, Ingrid Hedwig THE INFINITE CIRCLE: THE CHILIASTIC SOUL IN HEGEL, JUNG, AND HESSE WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON HEGELIAN AND JUNGIAN ELEMENTS IN HESSE’S "GLASPERLENSPIEL" The University of Oklahoma Ph.D. 1984 University Microfilms I nternâtionel300 N. zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Ml 48106 Copyright 1984 by Shafer, Ingrid Hedwig All Rights Reserved THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA GRADUATE COLLEGE THE INFINITE CIRCLE THE CHILIASTIC SOUL IN HEGEL, JUNG, AND HESSE WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON HEGELIAN AND JUNGIAN ELEMENTS IN HESSE'S GLASPERLENSPIEL A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE FACULTY in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY By INGRID H. SHAFER Norman, Oklahoma 1984 THE INFINITE CIRCLE THE CHILIASTIC SOUL IN HEGEL, JUNG, AND HESSE WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON HEGELIAN AND JUNGIAN ELEMENTS IN HESSE'S GLASPERLENSPIEL APPROVED FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY/INTERDISCIPLINARY Copyright by Ingrid Hedwig Shafer 1984 All Rights Reserved IV TO GUSTAV EMIL MUELLER Yuxns GOTL Xdyoa favrdv a'WÇuv . Herakleitos Tat tvam asi. Chandogya Upanishad ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This dissertation represents the final step in an un usual interdisciplinary Ph.D. program centered around the crosscultural study of the human self concept in historical perspective and involving (officially and unofficially) coursework taken over a twenty-five year period at the Uni- versitat Wien, the Universitat Innsbruck, and the University of Oklahoma in departments of philosophy, modern languages, and human relations. I wish to thank the University of Oklahoma for recog nizing the need for interdisciplinary inquiry, and support ing this kind of program. I wish to thank my entire committee, but most espe cially Dr. Tom W. Boyd, the director of my program and dis sertation, for their moral support, encouragement, and as sistance as well as their willingness to let me proceed into uncharted territory independently. I wish to thank the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma for giving me a pivotal role in the design and im plementation of a unique interdisciplinary general education program and thus permitting me to support my family while I was doing research which benefited both my students and this study. V 1 I wish to thank the gracious and highly competent staff of the Deutsche Literaturarchiv, Schiller National Museum, Marbach, West Germany for providing an ideal environment for research and allowing me access to the Hesse Nachlass and most particularly Hesse's extensive personal library which is stored there as part of the Hesse Collection. I wish to thank my husband, R. W. Shafer, for many hours spent taking and processing microfilm, my colleague, Dr. John Dexter Marble, for proofreading, and Ms. Joyce English for preparing the final typescript. vix PREFACE This study deals with works originating in three dis tinct fields of thought, philosophy, psychology and litera ture. As such it is subject to a number of critical objec tions. Proponents of the "art for art's sake" school, for example, might argue that the examination of an author's metaphysical commitments is irrelevant to the interpretation of a given work which should be considered solely in terms of inherent aesthetic values. Empirical scientists might argue that philosophical considerations have no place in science apart from simple analysis of the logical validity of a given hypothesis. Philosophers might argue that nei ther literature nor science may lay claim to genuinely philosophical content, the former because it uses emotive and expressive language and appeals to imagination rather than reason in an essentially subjective manner; the latter (unless the objecting philosophers happen to be logical positivists in which case they would tend to limit philo sophical inquiry to that which has traditionally been iden tified with science) because it tends toward the other ex treme, the use of discursive, literal or referential language to describe empirical reality in the form of viii experimentally verifiable propositions from an exclusively objective anti-speculative perspective. In practice, these kinds of distinctions appear not only excessively rigid but ultimately dangerous by encour aging the tunnel vision of experts and discouraging fruitful interdisciplinary inquiry. Human beings are complex crea tures and neither the mind nor thought processes can be arbitrarily dissected into mutually exclusive categories without doing serious damage to the organic whole. Philos ophers, scientists, and artists are first and foremost men and women who refuse to fit neatly into abstract pigeon holes. Recent research into the physiology of the brain has developed intriguing theories concerning the biological bases for the kinds of distinctions between science and art, reason and imagination, thinking in terms of parts and se quences versus thinking in terms of connectedness, which underlie the types of objections to interdisciplinary schol arship listed above. Literal and verifiable language generally originates in the left (i.e., dominant among right-handed individuals) hemisphere of the brain; recogni tion of patterns, use of imagery and metaphor, exploration of ambiguity have their origin in the right hemisphere. Ob viously, healthy persons have access to both sides of their brains, even though artists in the broad sense tend to be more in touch with their right hemisphere than their scien tific colleagues. This, however, means no more than that. ax "left siders" may be less aware than "right siders" of some of the "irrational" sources of their interests and activi ties. Philosophers, theoretical scientists, and poets are often possessed by a "vision" of "truth" which they tend to justify and communicate within the limiv.s of their specific medium. This "truth" is generally not the result of acti vities of analytical reason (i.e., the dominant brain hemi sphere) but rather of something Michael Polanyi has called "tacit knowledge" which originates in the psychic dimension called the pre-conscious by Andrew M. Greeley and described by both the psychoanalyst Lawrence Kubie and the philosopher Jacques Maritain as hovering between the rational and the conscious, at the very edge of the unconscious. This pre- conscious speaks in figurative language, painting pictures and telling stories which, in their imaginative immediacy, are ontologically prior to the theoretical propositions of philosophy, theology, or psychology. They are most directly expressed in the visual arts, myths, and literature. They are also, I suspect, experienced by the mystic. By focusing on the "Chiliastic Soul" in this study, I hope to track down one of those intuited "truths" as it appears in the thought and work of a philosopher, a psychologist, and a poet. X TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ........................................... vi PREFACE .................................................... viii INTRODUCTION Scope and Purpose of this S t u d y .................... 1 Time and Timelessness............................... 7 Definition of "Chiliastic Soul" .................... 15 PART ONE: THE PATH OF BECOMING Chapter I. THE CHILIASTIC SOUL IN HEGEL The Path of C o m p r e h e n s i o n .............. 18 The Problem of Intellectual Intuition .... 28 II. THE CHILIASTIC SOUL IN JUNG The Path of I n d i v i d u a t i o n .............. 32 The Expanding S e l f ....................... 36 III. THE CHILIASTIC SOUL IN HESSE The Path of A w a k e n i n g ........................