Dionizyjskość jako idea religijna w teorii symbolizmu Wiaczesława Iwanowa oraz w psychologii analitycznej Carla Gustava Junga

Abstract

In this article, I analyse Dionysianism as a religious idea, referring to Vyacheslav Ivanov’s theory of symbolism and Carl Jung’s analytical psychology. Both thinkers, inspired by Nietzsche’s concept of the Dionysian element, attempted to overcome nihilism by integrating Dionysianism with Christianity – each, however, with a different purpose. I compare their critique of Nietzsche’s aesthetic approach to the Dionysian and present the solutions of each of these thinkers. In the historical context of the development of Dionysianism as a religious idea, I turn my attention to the thought of German Romanticism, including Hölderlin and Novalis, and examine the problem of the “night of the world” and the issue of waiting for the return of the “true light”.