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This chapter begins with a theoretical discussion of the links between psychological resilience and literature by exploring the healing power of writing and reading, as well as the importance of poetic language in ecopsychology. The chapter then proceeds to shed light on three structures that are common to many literary texts dealing with human beings’ capacity to resist, adapt and transform in the face of disaster, in particular natural disaster, illustrating each structure with a paradigmatic example: scale changes with the poem “Du dunkelnder Grund” (1899) by Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke, circular structures with the short story Die Stadt (1910) by German (later Swiss) novelist Hermann Hesse, and snaking curves with the illustrated manuscript Das Rote Buch (1913–1929) by Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung. This chapter highlights the spiritual dimension of these structures, related to what is today called ecospirituality.

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Scale Changes, Circular Structures, and Snaking Curves: Ecospiritual Structures of Resilience in Early 20th-Century German-speaking Literature

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  • Aurélie Choné

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This chapter begins with a theoretical discussion of the links between psychological resilience and literature by exploring the healing power of writing and reading, as well as the importance of poetic language in ecopsychology. The chapter then proceeds to shed light on three structures that are common to many literary texts dealing with human beings’ capacity to resist, adapt and transform in the face of disaster, in particular natural disaster, illustrating each structure with a paradigmatic example: scale changes with the poem “Du dunkelnder Grund” (1899) by Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke, circular structures with the short story Die Stadt (1910) by German (later Swiss) novelist Hermann Hesse, and snaking curves with the illustrated manuscript Das Rote Buch (1913–1929) by Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung. This chapter highlights the spiritual dimension of these structures, related to what is today called ecospirituality.