Sidarta's journey and the problem of identity a transdisciplinary study of Hermann Hesse's novel

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the problem of personal identity based on Hermann Hesse's novel Sidarta. The novel's main life-story personage is analized and contextualized in the light of Jung's psychology and Mircea Eliade and Joseph Campbell's historical ethnologic perspectives. In a second time, the study contemplates also the sociological conception of the self-identity on modernity developed by Anthony Giddens. In the last instance, this paper seeks to circumscribe the idea of self-identity betting on the possibility of a transdisciplinary approach.