Goethe's Allegories of Identity

Index

index adelung, Johann Christoph, 202n5 “alexis und Dora,” 175–77 allegory, 9–11; adaptation of personification allegory, 68–69, 74, 143; dramatic/theatrical , 9–10, 57–76, 100; narrative, 95–117; and the older allegorical mode, 9–10; and romanticism, 143; romantic tales, 155–59; rousseau and Goethe’s allegorical approach, 10–11, 34; scientific, 77–94, 95, 100; and “symbol,” 10; and the uncanny, 171, 208n16 alps: and anxiety (personified Sorge), 129–34, 136; Furka Pass in winter, 129–32, 134, 136; Gotthard Pass in winter, 129–32, 134; Wilhelm Meister’s transit, 133 ammerlahn, Hellmut, 100–101 andersen, Hans Christian, 149 anet, Claude, 24 Angst, 123–24, 136–37, 203n6. See also anxiety (Sorge) anxiety (Sorge), 123–42; alpine mountain passes, 129–34, 136; Angst, 123–24, 136–37, 203n6; anxiety caused by love, 125, 203–4n10; and consciousness, 205n24; definitions of Sorge, 43, 124, 202n5; Egmont, 125–28, 141–42; Faust’s confrontation with, 43, 139–42, 187–88; Furcht, 124, 203n6; ghost imagery, 175–76; Goethe’s personal /political anxieties, 123–24, 202nn1–2; Goethe’s short poems, 124–25, 128; and the imagination, 136–38; Iphigenie, 126; Italy, 131–34, 137–39, 205n18; and mastery, 136; Pandora, 126–28, 141, 184; personified Sorge, 43, 125–42, 175–76, 187–88; process of transforming into a constructive deed, 123–42; projection of emotion onto landscape , 128–39; and repression, 128, 136–40; Tasso, 126, 127–28; tension between two meanings (converting anxiety (sorgen um) into care for others (sorgen für)), 125–28, 141, 184, 204n13; and time/temporality, 140–41, 187–88; Wilhelm’s Verdruss, 41, 114 anxiety of influence, 123, 202n1 apprenticeship: rousseau’s Émile, 39, 40, 98; Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, 39, 40, 98, 108 arendt, Hannah: critique of rousseau (on society), 43–44, 47–51, 194n14; and Goethe’s Faust, 43–44, 47–51; and “the human condition ,” 187; The Human Condition, 43–44, 48–51; ideal of “action,” 49–51; phenomenology of work and process of socialization in Faust, 49–51; On Revolution, 47; and rousseau as first “theorist of intimacy,” 3, 44 art: projection of emotion onto landscape, 137–39; transition from theatricality to narrative/selfhood in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, 99–100 atkins, Stuart, 94 austen, Jane: Mansfield Park, 207n8; Northanger Abbey, 110–11 ballads: and fairy tales, 158; “Der Fischer,” 135–36, 138–39, 155–56, 168–69; Goethe’s cycle of Müllerin poems, 157–58, 163; and “poetic arts,” 158. See also romantic tales, German Basedow, Johann Bernhard, 36 Beaumarchais, Pierre augustin Caron de, 17 Bloom, Harold, 123, 202n1 bourgeois tragedy, 17, 69 Boyle, Nicholas, 27, 38 Briefe auf einer Reise nach dem Gotthard (Letters from a Journey to the Gotthard), 129 Briefe aus der Schweiz (Letters from Switzerland ), 20, 129–33, 135, 136, 204n13; anxiety, 129–33, 135, 136; the sublime, 130, 204n15; veiling, 178 Brion, Friederike, 124 220 index Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, Los encantos de la culpa, 138 Campe, Johann Heinrich, 36 care: as anxiety (sorgen um), 125–28, 141, 184, 204n13; “care of the self,” 183–85; for others (sorgen für), 125–28, 141, 184, 204n13 Carlyle, Thomas, Sartor Resartus, 181 Carus, Carl Gustav, 5–6; Goethe: Zu dessen näherem Verständnis, 5–6; Psyche, 5, 75 Cassirer, Ernst, 14, 195n2 Catholic religious imagery and Die Wahlverwandtschaften , 31–33 Christus, Petrus, A Goldsmith in His Shop, 88–89 classicism, Goethe’s, 9, 17, 180–88; and civilizing/civilization, 187; and Elias’s psychosocial analysis of the civilizing process, 185–87; and Foucault’s historical analysis of subjectivity, 183–85; and Goethe’s morphology , 186–87; and healing, 184–85, 187; pivotal place in other accounts of Western subjectivity, 180–88; and psychological analysis of the novel, 181–83; and repression , 178–79, 180–81 clouds: Faust, 78, 87, 92–93; water vapor mirrors, 92–93 comédie larmoyante, 17 Confessions (rousseau), 15, 37; defense of extreme subjectivity, 45; Goethe’s ambivalence toward rousseau’s immorality (Dichtung und Wahrheit), 20–21; on love life/relationships, 24–27, 192n17; paranoia, 123; ribbon episode, 15, 20 conscience: and “care of the self,” 183–85; and Orest’s cure, 73; relation to consciousness , 12; Sorge as unconscious conscience (Faust), 205n24 contracts (pacts): Faust’s pact with the devil (Mephistopheles), 35, 36, 42–45, 48, 82, 187; and Goethe’s critique of rousseau’s social thought, 35, 36, 42–52; between the Lord and Mephistopheles, 42, 45–47, 48 court masques, 74, 115, 196–97n20...