Hidden Histories of the Unconscious Mind: Rediscovering Freud’s “Brilliant Mystic”, Carl du Prel (1839-1899)

The philosopher and occult writer Carl du Prel was the most prominent German-language theorist of the unconscious self immediately before Sigmund Freud, who once called du Prel “that brilliant mystic.” Revered by artists like R. M. Rilke, Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint, du Prel’s writings informed the work of renowned psychologists other than Freud, … Read more