Journeys of the Soul

• Predrag Finci

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Journeys of the Soul is a genre-diverse book, shaped as a collage of diary entries, poetry, prose poems, and philosophical-anthropological reflections, all connected by a single motif: introspection and a return to one's true self, to the soul. Drawing on Hegel, Freud, Jung, and Goethe’s Faust, as well as personal experiences and intimate notes, Predrag Finci subtly and meticulously reflects, across twenty-nine texts, on the phenomenon of the soul—its inner conflicts and search for wholeness, its unity and divisions, its limits and its striving to transcend them. Journeys of the Soul is not a journey toward a single truth, but toward many possible understandings. For every soul is unique, and every soul begins and ends its journey within itself. This book is an invitation to an inner journey: quiet, demanding, and uncertain—yet perhaps the only journey that truly matters.

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Since the beginning of time, people have told stories about journeys, both outward and inward. Each of these stories has been multifaceted, for in their travels the traveler sought what the soul desired and what resided within the soul, sought that which the soul itself is. People tell these stories because none of the travelers ever reached what they had dreamed of; or, more precisely, they reached only what they had dreamed in their dreams. There they fulfilled their aspirations, there they paused, while only the most persistent continued onward toward infinity, dreaming that one day they would arrive at the eternal and the perfect, at that which is greater than all dreams and beyond every destination.

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The soul is everything that a person is. It is born, grows, develops, and sometimes even perishes within a person, yet it always becomes that person's mirror and distinctive mark. The soul is our vulnerability and our shield, our exposure and our refuge. Of its ultimate destiny and of what comes “after,” we can speak only in poetic terms, which again opens metaphysical questions. Yet we can say with confidence that the soul strives to be in harmony with the external world, with everything that constitutes a person's life, while realizing its own essence within itself. In this lies its achievement and its necessary solitude, its often solitary fulfillment. Within the soul, a person preserves oneself and what is one's own—or else undermines and destroys oneself. The soul shapes a person into who and what they are.

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• ISBN: 978-953-369-074-2
• Dimensions: 142x205 mm
• Number of pages: 264
• Cover: paperback
• Year of the edition: 2026