As for how hard it is for a society to fear? In fact, it is not so difficult, just need to read Steppenwolf once.
When listening to this introduction, I think he is a little exaggerated, but also a little curious, what kind of work is it? It can also make people with social fears open their hearts and be cured.
When I opened Steppenwolf, I couldn't stop, and Hesse himself said: This is a spiritual crisis, and it is finally healing.
I learned about the background of the creation of this novel, and I was not only attracted by the feeling that was written in the story that aroused me, but also by the author's exquisite design.
The background of the creation was actually influenced by the Tao Te Ching
In his early years, Hesse received a gift from his father, the traditional Chinese culture of the Tao Te Ching.
The Tao Te Ching entered the German-speaking world in 1870, while the black Steppenwolf was first published in 1927.
I would like to say that there is also a special background of the times, that is, after the First World War, Hesse lost everything because of the anti-war, and his life became very bad, not only poor, but also very depressed.
In this novel, he uses a character like Steppenwolf to vividly describe his helpless and collapsed mentality at that time, as well as the internal and external difficulties.
The Tao Te Ching begins by saying: The Tao is tao, the extraordinary tao, the name can be named, the name is not famous. It is such a seemingly dualistic interpretation, but in fact, what the Tao Te Ching preaches is transcendence and duality.
And the layers of contradictions in "Steppenwolf" happen to be because of the various pains brought by dualistic opposition to people, which is the cage given to oneself by the social fear heart, not outside.
It's especially easy to get on when I read this book, and I look at it as if it's hard to breathe but it's very painful.
Hermann Hesse also won the Nobel Prize in Literature for this work, and people who have studied Steppenwolf for so many years have emerged in an endless stream of different opinions, no matter from which dimension the classics and direct opinions about this work are similar.
The seemingly opposing contradiction speaks of the unity of human nature
When I first started reading, I really thought that the creator or the publisher introduced the content of the book, but when I read it, I found that it was not right.
The preface seems to be too long, no book has such a long preface, and the more I read it, the more I feel, ah, so real, I read it like a real thing.
However, after finding out that only the few words for the madman appeared later, I realized that this was a bureau carefully set up by the author, which seemed simple but gradually brought the reader in little by little.
It is to let the reader take it seriously, and perhaps only by taking it seriously can we see what is the most real wave feeling that this story has triggered in their hearts?
At that moment, I sighed at Hesse's writing, and his ideas, which were really wonderful.
Some people say that there are traces of Jungian psychology in this work, but when I learned that Hesse was so greatly influenced by the Tao Te Ching, I knew that he was actually combining his exploration of the world with his own inner contradictions.
I don't know how to balance the perception of the new world and the entanglement of inner habits.
As a proud and independent person, he lives his life alone, and at the same time has the same joys and sorrows as ordinary people, and even has an occasional girlfriend, which is so real that it is almost myself at a certain stage.
One afternoon, a tenant sniffed the air around him with his nose and felt that he was suitable for him before he let himself live.
After learning about Hesse's life story, I learned that he wrote about the women in his life in this story, and the desire and fear for love and intimacy were written in this work.
Those dreams that are not fulfilled in real life are fulfilled one by one in the story
On the surface, it seems to be lonely, but pushing loneliness to the extreme is a desperate situation, and taking the desperate situation to the extreme is salvation.
If it is really a social phobia patient, in the end it will really have a great shock and a kind of liberation for the soul.
Because all the encounters in the world, in the final analysis, still allow us to reconcile with ourselves, but there are many ways to reconcile.
Reconciling with yourself does not live up to all encounters
Reading this book can easily drag me to the stage where I used to be very helpless, and that feeling is really like a black hole, trying to climb up a little bit and fall down, thinking a little bit and falling down, powerless, but wanting to grab everywhere.
With the help of such an archetype as Steppenwolf, an ordinary human who is good at thinking, the construction of psychological struggles that are difficult for many people to describe is vividly and clearly written.
This is a work of Hesse's self-redemption at the low point of life, and with his self-salvation, we readers will be able to find a new self as the protagonist's self-redemption and jump.
After watching this work, it also caused me to think a lot about human nature, wolf nature. Everyone has human nature and wolf nature, is there an absolute human nature or an absolute wolf nature in this world?
Man will also have wolf nature at a certain moment, and wolf nature will also reflect human nature at a certain moment.
There has never been a very obvious boundary between human nature and wolf nature, but when human nature is more, it feels warm, and when wolf nature is more, it feels cold.
No matter what we encounter, no matter what situation we encounter, whether it is human nature or wolf nature, it is nothing more than to make us reconcile with ourselves and live up to any encounter.
As for the ending, I think it doesn't matter, because every Steppenwolf living in his own world doesn't care what others think, nor does he care what others think, and traveling in his own world is also reconciling with the world and reconciling with himself.
Social fear does not exist, what kind of lifestyle you like is normal, but don't let yourself have to polish yourself according to some standard, that is too hard, you can accept all your feelings is the bottom of life.