Hello dear readers,
Spitteler starts in his descriptions of memories in a very early childhood, ie up in the first year, when he was still carried around, go back. There are experiences and memories that are imprinted in his conscious memory, when he his experience even without concepts that were only assigned later, had to make do. He names but just this first experience, that he can remember, as the most significant of his whole life. I quote from his autobiographical notes.
"If someone asked me but, 'When you were in your life I am most? which of your I's in various stages of life up to the next? which of them would admit you to choose if you had '- I would answer:'? That I my early childhood '.
"Innwendig the people," he said earlier, "there is something that we call it soul or ego, or what you will, because of me X, which of the changes of the body independent, which does not care about the mental capacity of the brain is not growing and developing, because it is done from the beginning there was something that has been living in the infant and his life remains the same. Can even say the X, if only quietly. It says, if I understand his dialect very exotic. We come from afar "
experienced as a spectator to Spitteler in this phase of his earliest childhood. The world into which he is born, he experienced as a stage on which he looks. He describes himself as follows:
"Not the stage, the audience is worthy of the theater, I mean devotion. Although an odd, miserable designed spectators: a tiny, dwarf-like creature without language, without teeth, with ridiculously small limbs and an inordinately high head, but out of his head looks two clear, bright eyes, the inexperienced, if still not knowing what they see, look near and far not arbitrating, eagerly suck and draw, and listen to behind the eyes, the noblest, of which we have customer: the living Soul. "
experienced as a spectator to Spitteler in this phase of his earliest childhood. The world into which he is born, he experienced as a stage on which he looks. He describes himself as follows:
"Not the stage, the audience is worthy of the theater, I mean devotion. Although an odd, miserable designed spectators: a tiny, dwarf-like creature without language, without teeth, with ridiculously small limbs and an inordinately high head, but out of his head looks two clear, bright eyes, the inexperienced, if still not knowing what they see, look near and far not arbitrating, eagerly suck and draw, and listen to behind the eyes, the noblest, of which we have customer: the living Soul. "
, the living soul, 'or just, The I of early childhood' is seen here as the audience, he is like his life is, which is brought into this earth life into it by far away, regardless of physical condition.
What is this audience in us that is of Spitteler experienced in his childhood and recalls not usually remains in the memory of men, but throughout the whole life speaks softly into each one of us? In the language of philosophy or psychology, we might well speak of the higher self or higher self. From Spitteler is this the viewer as I experienced, with whom he feels most deeply connected to him and in his experience of being at the back are perfect.
Christian
