Estados depresivos: sublimación literaria en la novela siddhartha

Abstract

This research entitled Depressive States: literary sublimation in the novel Siddhartha, advances a descriptive study of themes that bring psychoanalytic theory and literature closer together. In this case we are interested in three topics: the depressive states of the artist, sublimation in the author and the relationship of these two with the aesthetic experience. In order to fulfill this objective, we mainly use the postulates proposed by Freud and Jung. The work Siddhartha from which we start for our purpose is understood as an opportunity to access the existential meanings that its author experienced in a specific moment of his evolution and that founded the basis for the symbolic construction of his work. Thus understood, this research does not advance a formal study of the novel in question, but rather understands it as a scenario for the discussion of the feelings and desires of the man who writes it. Siddhartha is an access to Hesse's experiential life. Understanding the work under these margins allows us to understand the importance of literature as a route to the discovery of our senses, which is why every work of art is eminently pedagogical. Having thus detailed the issue in question, this research is concerned in a second instance with possible pedagogical applications of psychoanalysis to the teaching of literature and sets in motion a plan to make its contributions to training evident.