Le roman Le serpent de Mircea Eliade : rituel de récupération de l’androgynie
Nadejda Ivanov
Caietele Echinox June 30, 2022 DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.42.12 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that in Eliade's novel The Snake the couple Serge Andronic and Dorina recover an androgynous, primordial totality through a mystical experience of the sacred in an illo tempore space, guided by imagination and by a hidden second self, with the recovery understood both psychically in Jung's sense and mythically in Eliade's. |
Abstract
"This study presents a hermeneutics of the fantastic novel The Snake by Mircea Eliade in key of the problem of recovering the androgynous state of the couple Serge Andronic and Dorina. The mystical act is realized thanks to a profound experience of rediscovering the sacred and its inner experience, in a space that has become illo tempore. “Fallen” at the roots of the being, the characters face the numinous predicted by the other hidden me, “chained” by reality, so that only imagination guides them in the process of recovering a primordial state of totality both psychic in Jung’s sense and mythical, in the vision of the hermeneut Mircea Eliade."