Art thou not thyself the wind with shrill whistling, which bursteth open the gates of the fortress of Death? Art thou not thyself the coffin full of many-hued malices and angel-caricatures of lifе? Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spаke Zarathustra In an almost forgotten essay “Wotan”, Karl Gustav Jung harks back to the experience of a “fifteen-year-old Nietzsche […]
“Rough incursions, which in many places convert historical landscapes into elementary ones, hide subtle changes but of the more aggressive kind.” – Ernst Jünger, At the Wall of Time The contradictory processes of de-mythologization and re-mythologization are not unknown to ancient civilizations, in which the old myths are sometimes destroyed (demythologization) and replaced with new […]