“FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF JOSEF KNECHT THROUGH THE PRIZM OF TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY (BASED ON HERMAN HESSE'S NOVEL“THE GLASS BEAD GAME”)
Polonia University Scientific Journal January 17, 2022 Ivan Megela, Kateryna Mehela
The article focuses on three biographies of Josef Knecht from the novel by Hermann Hesse “The Glass Bead Game” with regard to the postulates of transpersonal psychology. A thorough study provides insight into the peculiarities of a unique literary technique – the transfer of the “self” into different historical periods by means of imagination, as a kind of “way to self”, devotion to truth...