Problems of Medieval Psychology as Presented in the “klein gemahel” of Heinrich the Unfortunate

NotesCf. Günther Müller, “Gradualismus. Eine Vorstudie zur altdeutschen Literaturgeschichte,” Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, II, 681–720.The text used in the preparation of this article was that of Erich Gierach as reproduced by J. Knight Bostock in the German Medieval Series, General Editor H. G. Fiedler, Section A, Vol. I (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1941). It goes without saying that other editions and the critical literature about them have also been consulted. Especially helpful was the edition of Wilhelm Wackernagel as reedited by Ernst Stadler (Basel, 1911).She is interpreted as a saint by the following scholars: Konrad Burdach, Anzeiger für deutsches Altertum, 12 (1886), 200; Agnes Geering, Die Figur des Kindes in der mhd. Dichtung (Zürich, 1899), p. 75; Ernst Stadler in his edition of Wackernagel’s Armer Heinrich (Basel, 1911), p. 242; Gustav Ehrismann, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur biszum Ausgang des Mittelalters, II, 2, I (München, 1927), p. 202, Anm . I. The “klein gemahel” appears as an average girl in Wackernagel, loc. cit., and in Anton E. Schönbach, Über Hartmann von Aue (Graz, 1894), p. 452.On the comparative social standing of Heinrich and his vassal, cf. Hilde Hügli, Der deutsche Bauer im Mittelalter, “Sprache und Dichtung,“42 (Bern, 1929), 68–69.For a general introduction into Carl Gustav Jung’s psycbology, cf. his treatise Das Unbewußte im normalen und kranken Seclenleben, 3rd ed. (Zürich, 1926). On adolescent psychology Jung publisbed Analytische Psychologie und Erziehung (Heidelberg, 1926), a translation of which is conveniently found in his Contributions to Analytical Psychology (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1928), pp. 329–382. On the relation of analytical psychology to literary history see the careful and conservative discussion by Julius Petersen, Die Wissenschaft von der Dichtung, I (Berlin, 1939), 156–161, 164–165, 345–348.On this adolescent schism between eroticism and sexuality cf. Eduard Spranger, Psychologie des Jugendalters, 5th ed. (Leipzig, 1925), pp. 80–139. On another case in literature see my own article on “Psychological Problems in Theodor Storm’s Psyche,” The German Quarterly, XVI (1943), 146–152.A good discussion of Gerhart Hauptmann’s interpretation of Hartmann von Aue’s characters may be found in the introduction to Walter A. Reichart’s and Philip Diamond’s edition of Hauptmann’s play Der arme Heinrich (New York: F. S. Crofts & Co., 1936)."Untersuchungen zum Armen Heinrich,” Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum, 55 (1917), 319.Loc. cit., p. 202.Loc. cit., p. 200–201

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