The reader follows… This, too, can be attributed to a number of different factors. Dreams can show up as compensations for things that are lacking in waking life.

Demian ends with an exemplary Jungian individuation process in the shape of the self-discovery and autonomy of the protagonist Sinclair. Such an undertaking has the full endorsemant of Jung as exemplified by the fact that a similar investigation of E.T.A. Also an essential part of any overall view of Hesse’s relationship to Jungian psychology is, however, the partial distance that Hesse developed towards Jung and Lang, and to depth psychology in general, as he grew older.

Jungian psychology without evaluation of the aesthetic and literary merits of Hesse's work. Dreams hold symbols of what lies, unknown to the dreamer, within the unconscious.

~Günter Baumann, 9th International Hesse Colloquium in 1997, Page 5 .

Demian, Jungian novel of Hermann Hesse Hermann Hesse Demian (1919) German novelist Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) is a work 'magic' by Maurice Blanchot ( The Book to Come , portfolio tests, p 233). Source: pixabay.com . The author of Steppenwolf here tells the story of Emile Sinclair as the 'Bildungsroman' (bildungsroman) basking in psychoanalysis and allegory. In Jungian psychology, dreams represent the psyche's work as it tries to communicate information from the unconscious to the conscious mind. Hoffmann's "Der goldene Topf" by Aniela Jaffé has been incorporated by Jung in Gestaltungen des Unbewussten, Rascher Verlag, Zurich, 1950.