Vicisitudes de la psique helénica: Erwin Rohde en Unamuno

Abstract

Unamuno esteemed the book Psyche by Erwin Rohde as the «leading work» on the faith of the Greeks in the immortality of the soul. The work deeply influenced Unamuno ́s writings. Here we study its presence in The Tragic Sense of Life (1911-1912), Orfeo’s «Funeral Oration» in Mist (1914), and the drama The Other(1926). We focus on the Greek cult of souls and on the psyche as the Other in Rohde and Unamuno.

Keywords

• unamuno
• rohde
• ancient greece
• immortality
• doppelgänger