Under a Starry Vault. Warburg, Jung and the Renaissance of Ancient Paganisms at the Beginning of the 20th Century

2015

Aisthesis : Pratiche, Linguaggi e Saperi dell’Estetico 8(2) 41-57

(Practices, Languages ​​and Knowledge of Aesthetics)

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/Aisthesis-17564

Publisher

Firenze University Press

University of Florence

http://www.fupress.com/

Abstract

The paper tackles the controversial question of the affinities between the work of Aby Warburg and Carl Gustav Jung. Instead of focussing her interest exclusively on the concepts of collective memory and primordial images, though, the author critically compares the different ways Warburg and Jung looked at the renaissance of ancient practices of Paganism at the beginning of the Twentieth century, and questions the extent to which the cultural crisis heralded by Modernity, and the challenges brought about by secularisation influenced their reading of the revivals.

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