La Descente chez les Mères dans le Faust II de Goethe ou L’ontologie de Méphistophélès
The Descent to the Mothers in Goethe’s Faust II or the Ontology of Mephistopheles

Summary/Abstract: In the episode of the descent of Faust at the « Mothers », Goethe concentrated his metaphysics of being, which is also a metaphysics of nothingness, because Faust II is based on the disturbing oscillation between the divine principle, the man ‑ God and the Devil. This ontological myth also has the meaning of a metapsychology of the relationships between sexes and the representations of the Eternal Feminine, whose Mother‑cult power is presented here taking the form of an absolute power of life and death.

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