In the novel Steppenwolf Jung's personality of an individual is split into .
different elements, like the shadow, the anima, the conscious, and the unconscious.
Throughout the novel, Harry is searching for a way to deal with his negative side, .
which he calls the Steppenwolf; it makes him live fearful and without peace Jung .
called Harry's dark side of his personality The Shadow. The Steppenwolf which.
is his persona is a Wolf of the Steppes he is a loner who is cursed with terminal.
loneliness. There are psychological Elements throughout the novel and they all .
have a different meaning to them. The attic at the Home Harry stayed at was a .
symbol of transcendence and epiphany. The wall around the church was a symbol.
of fragmentation, the door on the wall symbolizes the passage way to Unconsciousness. .
The Black Eagle is the first level of unconsciousness; the magic theater is the deepest .
level. Harry is always looking at himself, in a mirror. Hermine, Maria and Pablo are .
some sort of mirror image of Harry. They reflect aspects of his own personality and teach.
him about himself. In the Magic Theater, Harry comes across many mirrors. When he .
looks in the first mirror there, he sees the image of the wolf. Then it changes into other .
images, that all represent Harry in different ways. Another mirror image was the .
reflection of the Magic Theater sign on the wet pavement. .
When Harry looks at Pablos mirror it is broken into a thousand different pieces .
which represents Harry Fragmenting women and himself. He looks at women in pieces .
because he had a very strict religious mother as a child and he is always afraid of.
rejection, he thinks that most women are whores just in it for the money. Hermine.
was the first woman to really make a breakthrough with him. She said that the old .
Harry must die and the new Harry must live. She taught him how to laugh, and she .
was almost like a sister to him, she helped him reach the void in his life.
