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The homunculus is a kind of pure spirit working to become human In an eerie foreshadowing of contemporary concerns over the singularity, Mephistopheles suggests that a creature born of human science, being unbound from nature, may ultimately come to dominate us: вЂњUpon the creatures we have made,/ We are, ourselves, at last dependent.вЂќ GoetheвЂ™s homunculus is a soul unshackled by the material plane, and is depicted as being on a journey that mirrors FaustвЂ™s: while the latter is a mortal soul trying to shed his body, the homunculus is a kind of pure spirit working to become human. In direct contrast to Paracelsus, Goethe employs alchemy as a metaphor, in part to represent the dangers of post-Enlightenment science which he saw as fundamentally amoral.

In Part Two of the play, Faust and the devil Mephistopheles encounter an artificial human created by FaustвЂ™s former assistant Wagner. Hundreds of years later, the homunculus was resurrected in modern parlance through the 19th century epic Faust (1808) by German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He presented the idea as a literal and serious possibility of alchemical science, a practice interested in all manners of manipulation beyond known natural laws, including the search for the fabled вЂњPhilosopherвЂ™s Stone,вЂќ which could purportedly turn lead into gold and grant eternal life. The unconscious desire implicit in this bizarre interspecies experiment - for a man to be able to create life without the aid of a woman - was apparently lost on Paracelsus. Paracelsus first coined the term вЂњhomunculusвЂќ - the Latin portmanteau meaning вЂњlittle man.вЂќ The 16th Century occultist used the word to describe a miniature, fully-formed human that he believed could be produced through the вЂњputrefactionвЂќ of isolated human sperm within a horseвЂ™s womb (yes, you read that correctly).

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