My friend whose reading of Goethe you quote has very little understanding of much Western narrative art, and its relation to the social context, in spite of his great intelligence and insight into many matters. When you introduced me to Jung some years ago, I began to see that evil is real, and infects this human world. Like an eskimo woman once told a reporter, men and women are not evil, but they can do very evil things to each other.
My friend whose reading of Goethe you quote has very little understanding of much Western narrative art, and its relation to the social context, in spite of his great intelligence and insight into many matters. When you introduced me to Jung some years ago, I began to see that evil is real, and infects this human world. Like an eskimo woman once told a reporter, men and women are not evil, but they can do very evil things to each other.
I personally found Goete's THE SUFFERINGS OF YOUNG WERTHER to be a deeply moving book.