Abstract

SOUZA, Luiz Eduardo da Silva e  and  DELGADO, Victor Tinoco. Sidarta’s journey and the problem of identity a transdisciplinary study of Hermann Hesse’s novel. Psicol. USP [online]. 2008, vol.19, n.2, pp.213-234. ISSN 1678-5177.

This paper aims to discuss the problem of personal identity based on Hermann Hesse’s novel Sidarta. The novel’s main life-story personage is analized and contextualized in the light of Jung’s psychology and Mircea Eliade and Joseph Campbell’s historical ethnologic perspectives. In a second time, the study contemplates also the sociological conception of the self-identity on modernity developed by Anthony Giddens. In the last instance, this paper seeks to circumscribe the idea of self-identity betting on the possibility of a transdisciplinary approach.

Keywords : Identtity; Analytical psychology; Modernity; Transdisciplinarity.

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