Wolf in the Wild is one of Hesse's representative works, and it is also the first book I punched in Hesse's works.
Harry, the hero of the novel, is an upright writer. He opposes war and despises vulgar life. The suffocating life left him in a state of schizophrenia. One day, he happened to read a short book "Comment on the Wolf".
I woke up from a big dream and thought I was a wolf with both "human nature" and "wolf nature" ... Later, he met his confidant, lover and friend in life and began a journey of self-healing.
In this story, the "wild wolf" is not a wolf in nature, but a lonely, wild and vital person-Harry, who is also the author's opinion. Why do you say that? Because Harry's inner world in the novel, which is actually Hesse's inner world, is an expression of the author's own ambivalence. So both Harry and the wolf refer to the same person, Hesse.
So in the following article, the novel character "Harry" is sometimes written as "Hesse", which actually means the same thing.
The shocking Hesse
After reading Wolf in the Wild, I was deeply touched.
Because even though we are in different times and different countries, we have similar connections.
We like reading, and we all have many books. We like classical music, but are not interested in modern music. We like art, there are paintings in his room, and Van Gogh's "Starry Sky" wall cloth is hung in my house.
We all like writing, writing what we can't say to people to the world, becoming works, burying our own wealth in articles and letting words spread, just like throwing more and more drift bottles into the sea, it is lonely, but as long as it floats to the sea, it will land; But as long as someone finds it, we won't feel lonely.
We all have similar terms for "stream of consciousness". Hesse implanted his spiritual core into Harry's character, which coincides with the "virtual story plan" I once proposed-creating a virtual character, but implanting real people into the spiritual core of the character, so that the words can remain in the world like real ones. Invisibly, we protect our hearts and convey our profound thoughts to another person.
We all have similar loneliness. The more people know, the more lonely they are. He can't tell everyone the truth, and he is getting farther and farther away from the crowd because of the widening cognitive differences. Harry fell out with the professor in the novel because he didn't expect the knowledgeable professor to go crazy. In order to cope with this kind of loneliness, Hesse imagines several people who share loneliness with him in the novel-beautiful and all-round confidant Hermina, sexy lover Maria and performer Pablo-and I guess the reality prototype is Hesse's psychological counselor.
Hesse's psychotherapy
The last chapters of Wolf in the Desert are Hesse's new journey.
When depression was the worst, vitality was supporting him. An ancient wall that no one cares about, he appreciates it carefully and gets insights and thoughts from it. He wandered around, but he could sit in the stairwell and slowly admire his neighbor's fir trees and clean corridors. He is out of tune with the real world, but he is knowledgeable and often talks with early sages, which offsets the sense of world-weariness to some extent.
But it's not enough to heal his soul. He needs to make friends, pay more attention to the objective world and need "existential psychotherapy".
In the bar, he met his lifelong confidant Hermina. Hermina, I saw the shadow of Jung, Hesse's psychiatrist. Although Hermina is just a bar girl, she has the super power of a top psychological counselor. She used a series of psychological skills to help Harry out of the dark world of depression.
After establishing a good therapeutic relationship with him by using "* * * feeling * * *", Hermina used the "mirror" function of psychoanalysis to let Harry express his true feelings better, and made Harry realize "obedience" through psychoanalysis, and used challenge technology to touch Harry's negative cognition and let him see the lovely side of everything. For example, in dancing, Harry has been drawing a line for himself and shirking it for various reasons such as age and lack of ability. Under the guidance of Hermina, he gradually found that he could do it, and there was nothing wrong with such a life.
After getting to know each other, Hermina gave him "homework", let him practice dancing, let Harry dance with acquaintances at home by exposure, and then dance with strangers in the ballroom. This series is like completing a cognitive behavioral therapy. The last step of cognitive behavioral therapy is action. He learned to dance and dance with different women. He was no longer so confined and closed, and began to accept different lifestyles and deal with different people.
Besides dancing, Hermina helped him realize more possibilities in life and opened the door to a new world. For Harry, what he disapproves of is his own desire. He was taught from an early age that "sex is shameful". Therefore, Hermione arranged for Maria to be Harry's lover, so that the poor old man could feel the pleasure of the senses and regain the respect and recognition he lacked in his childhood.
In the last stage of psychotherapy, that is, in the "magic theater"-"any door" game in the previous chapter, he completed a process similar to hypnosis and venting therapy. With the help of hallucinogens and magic theater, Hermina's friend Pablo put Hesse into hypnosis and awakened his subconscious. Subconsciously, he got all kinds of impossible experiences, such as the war with cars; Also re-experienced the past affair with China women; Re-experiencing the second life in hallucinations, including returning to adolescence and bravely expressing his first love ... He excavated the forgotten traumatic memory and expressed his feelings by virtual exposure. The traumatic memory was forgotten normally and his mind was cured.
The last sentence of the novel marks his cure. He said, "One day I will learn to play the game of life better." One day I will learn to laugh. Pablo is waiting for me and Mozart is waiting for me. "
This sentence also moved me for a long time. This is his declaration to himself and the world: since the pain of life is inevitable, he can learn to shake hands with it.
Gong z author: Guo buxun
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