The call of the Daimon
Publisher: Chiron
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Wilmette, IL
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780933029835
Subjects: Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: Both art and analysis are responses to a probing need for truth and love. The Daimon's call is the summons to find them, regardless of cost. Kafka made the journey alone for the most part, and he recorded his search in his writings. Here, Carotenuto reads two of Kafka's novels, The Trial and The Castle, from the perspective of Jungian psychology, and finds, if not love and truth, a creative response to the dilemmas of life. - Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The parable of the arrest; title: The alienation of the marionette; title: Guilt and questioning; title: The night of the soul; title: The return to mother; title: The weight in the dark; title: Entering the labyrinth; title: Eros and violence; title: The compromise with existence; title: Salvation in art; title: The pain denied; title: From the metaphor of the Trial to the metaphor of the Castle; title: The call : the fascination of the Daimon; title: The pain of transformation; title: The exclusion of the outsider; title: The utmost challenge; title: The illness of identity; title: The faces of the mystery; title: The other as the mirror of the self; title: The affliction of questioning; title: The realm of the word; title: A look at death; title: Eros unaware; title: The encounter with the other; title: The Deus Absconditus; title: The amorous possession; title: Jacob's stigma; title: The mute passion; title: Sexuality and encounter; title: The struggle for life; title: The guilty messiah