Goethe’s Demon: the Eros of the Work
Abstract
The present paper is part of a wider project the author has developed together with Peter Bürger. This project focuses on the reality of art. Christa Bürger analyzes in this paper the conception of the artist and the creation developed by Goethe in Dichtung und Wahrheit. The artist appears here as someone who takes posesion of the existence of real characters, which seems to be particularly the case of Goethe’s female characters, where he seems to operate a desrealization of women. What is at stake here is the self-production of the artist and the dark side of creation, or more precisely its luciferin dimension.
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