Carl Spitteler's Prometheus And Epimetheus by Carl Gustav Jung 1921, 1923
Channel: Craig Campbell
Date: 21/03/2020

Carl Spitteler published Prometheus and Epimetheus in the early 1880's. Prometheus, along with his brother Epimetheus, were two of the four sons of the Titan Iapetus. Carl Jung read and commented on Spitteler's poem in his book Psychological Types. Nietzsche, upon reading the work, observed that Spitteler was “perhaps the most distinguished aesthetic writer among the Germans' according to The North American Review v.214 1921 Jul-Dec. 

"Prometheus, the forethinker, stands for the introvert, while Epimetheus, the man of action and after-thinker, signifies the extravert. In the conflict of these two figures the principal issue is the battle of the introverted with the extraverted line of development in one and the same individual."