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1. 6. Seeing the Word : John Dee and Renaissance Occultism

   Författare :Håkan Håkansson; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; mysticism.; metaphors; symbolism; alchemy; magic; Renaissance philosophy; occultism; Filosofi;

   Sammanfattning : This study reassesses the occult philosophy of the British polymath John Dee (1527-1609). Focusing on his treatise Monas hieroglyphica (1564) and his notorious angelic conversations in the 1580s, it describes Dee’s philosophical career as a continuous search for a language which could yield knowledge of both nature and God. LÄS MER

3. 7. Att se stjärnor på ljusa dagen : förvandling och försoning i August Strindbergs En blå bok

   Författare :Astrid Regnell; Eva Haettner Aurelius; Erik A. Nielsen; Litteraturvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; August Strindberg; Zones of the Spirit; En blå bok; devotional literature; literature of meditation; transformation; transmutation; alchemy; conversion; synthesis; Johann Arndt; Swedenborg; Goethe; Platon; Comparative literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Platon; alchemy; conversion; synthesis; Johann Arndt; August Strindberg; devotional literature; Zones of the Spirit; Goethe; literature of meditation; En blå bok; transmutation; transformation; Swedenborg;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis a pattern of coherence is explored in August Strindberg’s Zones of the Spirit (En blå bok) – a literary work consisting of a collection of short and quite diverse essays. It is argued that Strindberg’s pattern of thought has its base in a concept of transformation that characterizes his descriptions of nature and human life. LÄS MER

4. 8. Spegling och skapande : En studie i Lena Cronqvists "Målaren och hennes modell"

   Författare :Nina Weibull; Tomas Björk; Margaretha Lagerlöf; Anette Göthlund; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Self-portrait; Mirror; Creativity; Nude; Gaze; Gender; Paraphrase; Psychoanalysis; Primary Process Thinking; Border Object ; Mother s Body; Identity; Ambiguity; Androgyny; Alchemy; Vanity; Narcissus; Medusa; Freud; Lacan; Klein; Irigaray; Modersohn-Becker; Matisse; Kahlo; Helen Chadwick; Art; Konstvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : For their self-representation painters are referred to the use of existing codes of representation. These codes can be modified by displacement of conventional meaning. In the historically central discourse of the figure of the artist, the model functions as a complementary aspect of the painter. LÄS MER

5. 9. Western esoterism : Ultimate Sacred Postulates and Ritual Fields

   Författare :Lars Steen Larsen; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; gnosis; mysticism; religions experience; Eckhart Tolle; New Age; James Redfield; Theosophy; Agrippa; anthropology; Paracelsus; Western esotericism; USP.; Hermetica; ritual fields; Western esoterism;

   Sammanfattning : The greater part of Western Esoterism holds beliefs in five important matrices. This branch of esoterism, rooted in a Hermetic milieu, is labelled dialectical esoterism because of the dialectical relationship between the ‘lower’ (man, earth) and the ‘higher’ (heaven, the divine, God). LÄS MER

7. 10. Det skapande rummet

   Författare :Thérèse von Lampe; Margaretha Rossholm; Merit Laine; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gustav III; Haga; Louis Masreliez; visual rhetoric; 18th century interior decoration; Swedish neoclassical art; iconography; Freemasonry; Art; Konstvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : King Gustav III (1746–1792) was an imaginative person who ardently dedicated himself to the creation of a national Swedish culture, formed in accordance with contemporary continental models. He was also himself a great talent in the area of art and literature. LÄS MER