Formerly, I found very much of Faust in myself. I think, directly, more indirectly Goethe had expressed the complex nature of himself good enough. This because Goethe was not only, as a poet, a great self-revealer, but also, in spite of the abundance of autobiographical records, a careful concealer. But, I admit, in the case of Goethe, we have not succeeded very far. Since it is one of the principal fonctions of our thinking to master the material world physically, it seems to me that thanks are due to psycho-analysis if, when it is applied to a great man, it contributes to the understanding of his great achievement. He himself approached it at a number of points, recognized much through his own insight that since we have been able to confirm……. The same I would say is true for Faust in which what Wagner did musically Goethe did literarywise. He never tried to make a systematic analysis of the masterpiece, rather prefered of making some attributes here and there, as we shall see below. While reading Faust almost in ecstasy, perhaps experiencing our collective unconscious time to time, and reexperiencing many things through identifications, one feels as if watching his own life story in a mirror. During this, they experience and share and repeat the entire human beings daily life experiences: hope, hopelessness, love, suffer, myth and alike.
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