New 120-page book by Renzo Giorgetti, Lovecraft and Synchronicity (EDS, Stienta 2012. In Italian). Here’s the gist of a translated review…
Giorgetti uses ideas of synchronicity theorized by [the mystic/psychotherapist] Carl Jung. [The book has a] chapter dedicated to the figure of “Nyarlathotep” [in which Lovecraft] incarnates the state of tension that unites the crowds at that particular moment in history […] because of political and social upheavals [arising in the the post-war crisis year of 1919]. Then there are seemingly daring combinations between Lovecraft and the contemporary Italian writer Massimo Bontempelli. […] Another very striking juxtaposition is in the final chapter where the music of Erik Satie is compared to that of Erich Zann. Satie — one of the greats of contemporary music — is portrayed as an eccentric and passionate about esoteric beliefs.
Kusa Wazi said:
In the early years of the last century, Einstein was a frequent dinner guest of C.G. Jung. The conversations – according to Jung – finally gave him the idea that ‘psychic relativity’ might be based on quantum theory. Jung had a long relationship with the physicist W. Pauli, who was nominated by Einstein for a Nobel prize. He eventually got it in 1945 – for his exclusion principle…. See the book Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932-1958.
Renzo Giorgetti said:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction – Definition of the terms and general survey of the works written about this subject.
Chapter I – Mythical-symbolic analysis of the character of Nodens.
Chapter II – Symbolism of the mask in Lovecraft.
Appendix of the chapter II – An ancient Roman funeral custom, known as “Imagines Maiorum” has inspired a note of the “Commonplace Book” and then “The Whisperer in Darkness”.
Chapter III – As the events and the general atmosphere of the period 1919-1921 have brought to life the character of Nyarlathotep (in this chapter is also quoted yours “Walking with Cthulhu”).
Chapter IV – Massimo Bontempelli’s novel “La vita operosa” (“Laboriuos Life” – 1920) narrates the vicissitudes of a man of letters in the business world of an industrial metropolis, his failures and his final return to literary activity (very similar to the real experience of Lovecraft in New York).
In a 1927 essay, Bontempelli theorizes the function of the writer as producer of “modern myths”… just meanwhile Lovecraft was writing “The Call of Cthulhu.”
Chapter V – Relationships between the discovery of the first dinosaur’s egg fossil and the genesis of “At the Mountains of Madness”.
Chapter VI – In the early 30’s (in Cueva de Los Casares, Spain) was discovered prehistoric rock engravings that showed anthropoid monsters of hybrid nature, very similar to those described in “The Shadow over Innsmouth”.
Chapter VII – Unveiled in this chapter the origin of the name Kuranes.
Chapter VIII – Extraordinary similarities between physical appearance, behaviour and artistic production of Erich Zann and the french composer Erik Satie.
Chapter IX – My personal interpretation of Lovecraft’s work in a personal equation:
“Lovecraft = Leopardi + Nietzsche + quanta physics”
Conclusion