Under a Starry Vault. Warburg, Jung and the Renaissance of Ancient Paganisms at the Beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century
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 lo...
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description | 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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spelling | doaj.art-d4f7e5f1a12b427fae971c857e7bc36b2022-12-22T01:35:36ZengFirenze University PressAisthesis2035-84662015-11-0182Under a Starry Vault. Warburg, Jung and the Renaissance of Ancient Paganisms at the Beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> CenturyManuela Pallotto StricklandThe 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.https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/872Aby WarburgCarl Jungcollective memory |
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title | Under a Starry Vault. Warburg, Jung and the Renaissance of Ancient Paganisms at the Beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century |
title_full | Under a Starry Vault. Warburg, Jung and the Renaissance of Ancient Paganisms at the Beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century |
title_fullStr | Under a Starry Vault. Warburg, Jung and the Renaissance of Ancient Paganisms at the Beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century |
title_full_unstemmed | Under a Starry Vault. Warburg, Jung and the Renaissance of Ancient Paganisms at the Beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century |
title_short | Under a Starry Vault. Warburg, Jung and the Renaissance of Ancient Paganisms at the Beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century |
title_sort | under a starry vault warburg jung and the renaissance of ancient paganisms at the beginning of the 20 sup th sup century |
topic | Aby Warburg Carl Jung collective memory |
url | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/872 |
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