'Der Golum' and the Grotesque

Modern Man's Psychological Crisis: The Division of the Self

Interestingly, the unique and unsettling crisis about the identity of man in the mid-twentieth-century came about at approximately the same time the grotesque began to feature large in art and literature. To set the background, I have spend the past couple of posts offering a historical analysis of the grotesque beginning in the fifteenth century. We ha…