Die Wahlverwandtschaften
Five arts was Goethe's method of transmuting his observation of human nature into sharable form. Drawing from his novel, "Elective Affinities" ("Wahlverwandschaften"), Goethe discerned a "geheime Verwandschaft" (hidden relationship) of parts that explains how one form can transform into another form while being part of an underlying archetypal form ("Ur-phänomen").