The Interwar Years: 1919-1939 APEH – Miss Wildner.

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The Interwar Years: APEH – Miss Wildner

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” “Faith: not wanting to know what is true.” “All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

The “Old Order” had crumbled after industrialization and _____________; left traditional values open to question New intellectual and artistic (and scientific, political…) trends sought to fill the void Since the “rules” had been destroyed, _______________________________ became normal Atmosphere of _________________________; many also sought refuge in ___________________________________ Introduction

Existentialism: Life has no __________________________ meaning Individuals are accountable to themselves There is no ______________ There is no absolute ___________________________ All that awaits is the ______________ There are no rules  total freedom and experimentation Philosophy

Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot Theatre of the Absurd…

Freud Psychoanalysis Id, Ego, Super Ego Oedipus Complex The Interpretation of Dreams Freudian slips More confusion…

“You are all a lost generation.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Full quote from Gertrude Stein: “That is what you are. That is what you all are … all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.” Largely American writers (Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot…) “Lost Generation”