"Narcissus and Goldmund", a novel from the late maturity of Hermann Hesse, to which belong also his works of similar psyche, Demian and Steppenwolf, is deeply influenced by Carl Jung's psychoanalytic method in the portrayal of the characters in the work. The twin themes of love-death, beauty-ugliness, justice-injustice, peace-slaughter form the central axis of yet another captivating novel, where in a highly aesthetic manner the necessity of human adaptation to a higher synthetic level, beyond good and evil, is demonstrated.