Journey to the East (Die Morgenlandfahrt) is a short novel by Hesse, where we find a representation of an initiatory path that involves enthusiasm and disappointment, firm determination and radical doubt, up to the final revelation and metamorphosis of the self. The stages of the journey focus on some essential aspects such as the escape from the categories of space and time, the crossing of the imaginal world, the existence or non-existence of an initiatory order, the overcoming of the individual dimension. What insights that text can stil give us for a transformative esperience?

Partire, smarrirsi, ritrovarsi. Appunti sul Pellegrinaggio in Oriente di Hesse

Davide Susanetti
2023

Abstract

Journey to the East (Die Morgenlandfahrt) is a short novel by Hesse, where we find a representation of an initiatory path that involves enthusiasm and disappointment, firm determination and radical doubt, up to the final revelation and metamorphosis of the self. The stages of the journey focus on some essential aspects such as the escape from the categories of space and time, the crossing of the imaginal world, the existence or non-existence of an initiatory order, the overcoming of the individual dimension. What insights that text can stil give us for a transformative esperience?
2023
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