THE THREE SHADOWS FROM “THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY”

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dc.coverageSTUDIA UBB PHILOSOPHIA, LXI, No. 2, 2016 (p. 71-81)en-US
dc.creatorBOLEA, Ștefan
dc.date2016-08-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-21T10:40:07Z
dc.descriptionOscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) becomes especially interesting when one analyzes it through the hermeneutical lenses of The Garden of Eden complex. The comparison between Dorian’s decreation and the Fall of Adam and Eve was not yet researched taking into consideration the Hegelian-Kierkegaardian insights about “lost innocence” and “revolutionary freedom”. I have also investigated the ideal of “total existence” proposed by Lord Henry Wotton and his Symbolist eulogy of Beauty. Moreover, the Jungian concept of the shadow was used to explain the dynamics between the two main characters of the novel. The destruction of ethics, which reminds us of Nietzsche and Rimbaud and the final Kierkegaardian collapse of aestheticism transforms Oscar Wilde into a complex author who deserves a thorough philosophical analysis.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/5253
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/1178
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBabeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Pressen-US
dc.relationhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/5253/4961
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2016 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophiaen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia; Volume 61, No. 2, August 2016; 71-81en-US
dc.source2065-9407
dc.subjectThe Fall, Jungian shadow, decreation, awakening, individualism, aestheticism, ethics, symbolism, new Hedonism, nihilism, transfer of personality, psychology of influence, demonism, theosis, existentialismen-US
dc.titleTHE THREE SHADOWS FROM “THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY”en-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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