Lucian Blaga Research Articles

Library and Information Sciences in Romanian higher education today

With 33 years of existence in Romania, higher education in the field of library and information science is today organised by four universities: University of Bucharest, Babes Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu and West University of Timisoara. In 2005, the Bologna Process was implemented in this field as well, with specialized education being organized in three specific cycles: undergraduate and master's studies, postgraduate studies and doctoral studies. Starting with this moment, we are assisting the attempt to standardise the curriculum, implicitly the set of skills and competences that graduates must have after graduation. This is supervised by the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education; the competences and skills are listed in the register drawn up by the National Agency for Qualifications, and they are correlated with the ESCO register (European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations). By analysing the most recent RAQAHE recommendations (updated in 2022), the ESCO and NAQ registers, we aim to highlight the topicality of the study programmes offered by the four universities. The discussions can be held, in essence, on how prepared graduates are for the labour market and what would be the next steps for a more frequent adaptation of the content of subjects in curriculum in order to take into account the views formulated by The European Network Of Public Employment Services in June 2023, as a contribution to the European Year of Skills. It allows us to formulate some conclusions on the current state of curriculum in Romania.

The symbol of the spider: from the myth of Arachne to the poem of Ion Hadârcă

The symbol of the spider maintains its relevance as a component part of the symbol of communication in the 21st century, being under the www (World Wide Web) sign. The internet network has as its functional prototype the spider. It is the meaning of information transmission networks. I researched the symbol of the spider and its connotations in antiquity, in the lyrics of several Romanian writers: Lucian Blaga, Leonida Lari, Ion Hadârcă. I have tinted the image in cinematography. The article contains concepts from different fields: psychology, mythology, cinematography, philosophy, Romanian literature and comparative literature

Provocări hermeneutice ale originarității mitului în orizontul morfologiei culturii și al noologiei abisale

This paper aims to examine the relationship between mythological discourse and magical thinking within the context of abysmal noology and cultural morphology. Lucian Blaga distinguishes between myth and religion as cultural forms that affirm the nature of man through mystery and revelation. Therefore, the question arises regarding the original nature of myth. Furthermore, Blaga differentiates between mythical and magical thought, emphasising that they are not equivalent or interdependent. The work aims to reinscribe mythical discourse in a pre-Christian religious system, in which its performative dimension, through transmission, and also through gestures with a ritualistic magical substance constitutes, alongside imagistic representation, a religious configuration par excellence. First, this text will examine the use of myth as an analogy due to the influence of the Platonic school of thought and the triumph of the discourse of the Logos over the mythical discourse. Subsequently, the discussion will centre on the boundaries of abyssal noology and the expressions of cultural forms within it, with the aim of distinguishing between Blaga’s interpretations of religion and myth. Finally, this text will establish the original interdependence between myth and ritual in the archaic religious mind at a hermeneutical and phenomenal level, specifically addressing the relationship between mythical and magical thought.

Reviewer Acknowledgements for Applied Economics and Finance, Vol. 11, No. 2

Applied Economics and Finance (AEF) would like to acknowledge the following reviewers for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Many authors, regardless of whether AEF publishes their work, appreciate the helpful feedback provided by the reviewers. Their comments and suggestions were of great help to the authors in improving the quality of their papers. Each of the reviewers listed below returned at least one review for this issue.Reviewers for Volume 11, Number 2 Djebali Nesrine, University of Jendouba, TunisiaErdal Gumus, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, TurkeyFahri ÖZSUNGUR, Adana Science and Technology University, TurkeyIbrahim Baghdadi, Lebanese University, LebanonIgor Matyushenko, School of Foreign Economic Relations and Touristic Business, UkraineKaveh Dalvand, University of Delaware, United StatesNana Rusadze, Akaki Tsereteli State University, GeorgiaRajeev Rana, APB Govt. P.G. College, IndiaRamona Orastean, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, RomaniaShahram Fattahi, Razi University, IranShaoshu LI, Cornell University , USAZuzana Janko, San Francisco State University, USA Nikki GibbsEditorial AssistantOn behalf of,The Editorial Board of Applied Economics and FinanceRedfame Publishing9450 SW Gemini Dr. #99416Beaverton, OR 97008, USAURL: http://aef.redfame.com

150 Years Since Avram Iancu’s Passing into Eternity: A Publishing Retrospective of the Year 2022

The present article provides a brief historiographical analysis of the editorial year ‘Avram Iancu 150,’ which saw the publication of seven volumes of history, literature, poetry, critical literature, and drama dedicated to the hero of the Romanian Revolution of 1848–1849 in Transylvania. Four books were published by the Școala Ardeleană publishing house of Cluj-Napoca, the only publishing house in Romania to have undertaken a large-scale publishing project dedicated to restoring the life and memory of Avram Iancu for the 21st-century reader, two volumes were published by the Techno Media publishing house of Sibiu, and another volume by the Theosis publishing house of Oradea. Two of the six volumes are critical re-editions of works written in the first half of the 20th century by two distinguished personalities of Romanian culture: philosopher, writer and playwright Lucian Blaga and historian Silviu Dragomir. The other volumes were authored by writer Mircea Tomuș, critic and literary historian Mircea Popa, historian Lucian Giura, librarian Maria Grancea, and Father Ion Alexandru Mizgan of the Orthodox Church.

Avram Iancu’s Will and Legacy: Unknown Legal Documents (1850–1877) in the Rațiu Collection of the Lucian Blaga Central University Library in Cluj-Napoca

Our article presents the little known so-called Rațiu collection of documents from the years 1850– 1877 regarding the death of the Romanian hero Avram Iancu. The documents were donated in 2015 by Indrei Rațiu to the Lucian Blaga Central University Library in Cluj-Napoca. They are valuable legal historical documents regarding the testaments of Avram Iancu (1824–1872) and of his father, Alesandru Iancu (1797–1855), as well as their trials for succession. The documents were written mostly in the Romanian language with Cyrillic and Latin letters, but inserts and documents in German and Hungarian were also added.

The Golden Age of the Virtual Realms, Right Now

The virtual is just the latest expansion of human craving for meaning and it is brimming with opportunities: mostly symbolic, nonetheless, real. Thinking, presenting ormanipulating a situation has always been dependent on the symbolic operations (Mircea Eliade, Raoul Girardet, Lucian Blaga, Camil Petrescu, Ernst Cassirer), on the uses andabuses of the referential and condensed symbols (Murray Edelman). At the same time, such operations are not reserved entirely to politics. In our virtually expanded contemporarylives, we relate to symbolic meanings, either consciously or not. As Slavoj Zizek noticed: “Behind the realities there are phantasies and behind the phantasies, realities.” Baudrillard’s ecstasy of communication and simulacra present the offer of a golden ageopen for individuals and politicians alike. The enemies are clear and the saviours, too. Justlike decorations hanging in the virtual window here there are the (slightly) cosmeticized images of ourselves carved as individual persona representations, or, as the solution messages for the current problems, prompt as a soft form of political management. All these symbolic décors in the virtual malls that we visit and consolidate are symbolic attemptsto approximate the golden age as we can “see” it, in our human everlasting aspirationsfor success and prosperity, for stability, communion and, possibly, peace.

‘Immediacy’ in Whitehead and Blaga

In Whitehead’s metaphysics there is a concept of ‘immediacy’ which is interesting to interpret in relation to the concept of ‘immediacy’ found in Lucian Blaga’s metaphysics. Immediacy stands in opposition to the wholeness of existence and the complexity of reality in both thinkers. In Whitehead, immediate experience is merely a facet of the constructed series of events and processes fundamental for existence and reality and for connecting our objective, scientific and logical descriptions of the world, and the more everyday world of subjective experience. In Blaga, immediacy is the label for limited (animal-like) existence deprived of the metaphysical dimension. However, in Blaga, man is defined by the metaphysical dimension and thus, in terms closer to Whitehead’s view, always engaged in a crusade to comprehend both ‘physical multiplicity’ (the World) and ‘the infinite ground of all mentality’ (God), which is consonant with Blaga’s concept of man’s defining situation within ‘the horizon of mystery’. Both metaphysics accepted a perspective, or, an interpretation of the idea that God creates the World as well as the World creating God. In our view, the Unmoved Mover image of God remains as a ‘trace’ in the idea of permanent reference for the World. This is comparable with the perspective found in the metaphysics of Lucian Blaga, where the metaphysical center, the ‘Great Anonymous,’ ‘pushes’ backwards the human being, via limitative ‘divine differentials’ occasioning the limiting stylistic matrices for the creative and intrusive ontological and metaphysical drive of man.

Review of Cristina Codruta HAGEANU – “Dreptul familiei” ( "Family law") , Publishing House: Hamangiu, Bucharest, Romania, 2023, pp.499

In November 2023, the 3rd edition of the course Family Law, author Codruța Hageanu, lecturer at the Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu, appeared at the Hamangiu Publishing House in Bucharest. The first two editions of the work also carried the reference to civil status documents in the title, but in the 3rd edition, the author gave up this reference, preferring a new structure, in which the patrimonial part of family law is presented separately from the relations of family that do not have this component. The course is complex and complete, even if not exhaustive, in which the didactic experience, but also that of a legal practitioner (the author was a judge and university teacher for a quarter of a century, and is currently a lawyer) is revealed both through the clear exposition and orderly organization of institutions, as well as by trying to provide solutions to controversial issues in an attractive and difficult field at the same time.

“Old” stories in “new” clothes – a reading of the novel The children’s crusade by Florina Ilis

Focusing on the success of Florina Ilis’ novel The children’s crusade, this article explores its potential as a literary contribution in a broader global discourse, as it could be considered “literary Romanian capital” in a discussion about world literature. While the book draws on clichéd stereotypes of Romanian society from the early 2000s, including the Ceaușescu era and the challenging transition from communism to democracy, the author uses a universal language of trauma. This allows for a wider audience to engage with the themes presented in the novel. Thus, her story becomes part of a global collection of works exploring the theme of the “children’s crusade” (including George Zabriskie Gray, Marcel Schwob, Lucian Blaga, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Thea Beckman, Gregory J. Rinaldi, Karleen Bradford, Kathleen McDonnell, Bryce Courtenay, Mario Vargas Llosa, Tullio Avoledo, amongst others). Considering the connection between continuity and innovation in Romanian literature, 75 years following Lucian Blaga’s play, with the same title, Florina Ilis employs a plot with medieval roots in her novel, which has fascinated writers worldwide, to deliver a unique perspective, in a new discourse.

Studies in Business and Economics: Six Years of Indexing in Web of Science

Abstract Studies in Business and Economics (SBE) is an open access journal owned by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (Romania). The paper’s objective is to present a palette of quantitative data regarding the performance of the journal between 2017 and 2022. The paper contains a comprehensive bibliometric study of the journal and an authorship pattern analysis. The sample contains 328 articles indexed in Web of Science (WoS) database. Results shows a significant growth in the number of citations of the SBE journal starting with WoS/Scopus indexation. The leading contributors to the journal are (a) authors (Ogrean C., Herciu M.), (b) institutions (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies), (c) countries (Romania, the USA). The most predominant are papers with a single author (37%), which means that 17% of the authors prefers to write and publish an article by itself. The largest number of authors are implied in three co-authored papers. On average, a paper published in SBE is elaborated by 2.12 scholars. 63% of papers published in SBE have more than two authors and 83% of scholars prefer co-authorship publications. The following key-topics were preferred by authors: impact, economic growth, performance. The indexing of SBE in WoS and Scopus led to an increase in the interest of researchers to publish in this journal.

The expectations of generation Z regarding the university educational act in Romania: optimizing the didactic process by providing feedback.

In the university education system, the evaluation and provision of two-way teacher-student feedback are tools within the control function of educational management. Feedback can be defined as the process that takes place in the context of teacher-student interaction during university courses, both individually and in groups, for the development and achievement of the performance of the two actors involved through evaluation, appreciation, support, perception, and teaching. The research aims to develop an innovative feedback tool for the higher education engineering sector to support the improvement of learning outcome-oriented curricula and teaching activities to better meet the learning needs of Gen Z students while being relevant to the labor market and to society in general. The research had a number of subjects: 246 students (67.5% women, 32.5% men) and 7 teachers to whom two feedback instruments were applied (the SKS instrument and the standard instrument of Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu). After testing the four hypotheses, it was observed that the feedback provided by Gen Z is focused on four areas of competence: psychological, pedagogical, education management, and general impression. Each field includes a set of professional and transversal competencies. The SKS (STOP, KEEP, and START) evaluation form is more reliable in evaluating different disciplines than the standard evaluation form by providing a more homogenous type of feedback for each discipline or teacher.

Reviewer Acknowledgements for Applied Economics and Finance, Vol. 10, No. 3

Applied Economics and Finance (AEF) would like to acknowledge the following reviewers for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Many authors, regardless of whether AEF publishes their work, appreciate the helpful feedback provided by the reviewers. Their comments and suggestions were of great help to the authors in improving the quality of their papers. Each of the reviewers listed below returned at least one review for this issue.Reviewers for Volume 10, Number 3 Ali Darub Al-Hiyali, University of Anbar, IraqBabacar Seck, University of Bahrain, BahrainHichem Maraghni, University of Taibah, TunisiaIgor Matyushenko, School of Foreign Economic Relations and Touristic Business, UkraineKeffala Mohamed Rochdi, University of Manouba, TunisiaLingkai Kong, Izmir University of Economics, TurkeyMagdalena Radulescu, University of Pitesti, RomaniaMarco Muscettola, Independent Researcher-Credit Risk Manager, ItalyNikoloz Chikhladze, Akaki Tsereteli State University, GeorgiaPatrycja Kowalczyk-Rolczynska, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, PolandRajeev Rana, APB Govt. P.G. College, IndiaRamona Orastean, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, RomaniaSzabolcs Blazsek, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, GuatemalaY. Saidi, M’sila University, Algeria Nikki GibbsEditorial AssistantOn behalf of,The Editorial Board of Applied Economics and FinanceRedfame Publishing9450 SW Gemini Dr. #99416Beaverton, OR 97008, USAURL: http://aef.redfame.com

Aesthetic Paradigms of the Sacred in Contemporary Bessarabian Poetry

The article summarizes some important views of famous philosophers, theologians, scientists as Rudolf Otto, Mircea Eliade, Lucian Blaga, Carl Gustav Jung, Leszek Kołakowski, Jean-Jacques Wunenburger, on the idea of sacredness, spirit, mister, exposing, in a concise way, the evolution of the meanings of the sacred in religion, mythology, philosophy, poetry, in order to reveal transparently and conclusively how some successive generations of Bessarabian poets relate to the theme of the sacred specifying aesthetic tendencies and formulas in which the imaginary of the sacred is cultivated in contemporary poetry.

Study on the Ecology, Biology and Ethology of the Invasive Species Corythucha arcuata Say, 1832 (Heteroptera: Tingidae), a Danger to Quercus spp. in the Climatic Conditions of the City of Sibiu, Romania

This scientific paper examines the impact of climate change on the spread and survival of the invasive species Corythucha arcuata Say, 1832 (oak lace bug, or OLB) in Romania. The OLB is native to the Eastern USA and Canada, and in its native habitat, it coexists with minimal impact to the preferred host plant species Quercus. However, in Europe, the OLB in high density causes early defoliation, slowing tree growth. As Quercus spp. is a keystone species, the impact of the OLB on European forests is significant. This paper aims to address several gaps in knowledge about the OLB by presenting findings from a study conducted by the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (ULBS) in Romania. The study identified the species’ chronology of spread, ecology, ethology and biology of the species, in addition to foliage classification to determine the extent of attack. The study found a direct link between the temperature and the speed of the generational lifecycle. The findings support the thesis that climate change is enabling the healthy, rapid density growth of OLB, which is a danger to the Quercus spp. Further research is needed in the area of the thermal tolerance of the OLB, and the research conducted by the ULBS represents the first documented research into the thermal constant of the insect. The paper concludes that further research must be in the direction to understand how and where these insects survive during winter to find future management measures and identify chemical or biological methods as solutions to eradicate and stop the expansion of the invasion of the OLB, and the potential consequences for the Quercus sp.

Current Fundamental Competences - The Specifics of the Teaching Profession

Abstract The design, implementation and evaluation of the initial and continuous training programs for teaching staff are based on the competence approach model, as a way of defining and recognizing training results. Competences are defined as integrative sets of knowledge, skills, motivations and attitudes that mediate professional behaviour and guarantee expert action in specific fields and contexts of activity for the teaching profession. The main fields in which the competences corresponding to the teaching profession are defined and according to which the continuous training programs are designed, realized and evaluated, are: the specialty field, corresponding to the educational disciplines and the teaching position held by the teaching staff; the field of pedagogy and educational psychology; the field of didactics/specialized didactics; the field of educational management and school legislation; the field of information and communication techniques applied in teaching and learning processes, in institutional management and data management. The competence system on which this methodology is based takes over and adapts to the specifics of the teaching profession and to the requirements of Romanian pre-university education the categories and levels of competence with which the European Qualifications Framework and the National Qualifications Framework in higher education operate. The system operates with two fundamental categories of competences: professional competences: cognitive competences; functional-action skills; and transversal skills: role skills; to which the intercultural and interrelationship competence is added, the competence meant to ensure well-being and the competence to support the environment, according to what is stated by the OECD in the PISA Global Competence Framework, The European Sustainability Competence Framework, The Council of Europe Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Cultures. The pedagogic practice internship involves a set of activities of observation, analysis and support of lessons, all under the guidance of a pedagogic practice mentor. The research method used was the survey, the questionnaire instrument being used in order to interview the students of the “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Faculty of Letters and Arts and Faculty of Social and Human Sciences.

Death and immortality in "Dracula's Diary": readings through "Corpus Hermeticum"

The knowledge existent at present, which generates the need for a new approach to the myth of Dracula, refers to an almost unanimous reception based on the novel published in 1897 by Bram Stoker and on the tens of the subsequent portrayals which have induced a social and cultural paradigm standardized as commercial kitsch. Within this fictitious construct Dracula has been expounded in manifold keys. However, to ordinary perception, his figure is reduced to the semi-caricatural vampire character, the living-dead craving for blood. This article aims to answer a series of questions about the representations of Dracula and their relevance to the fields of cultural and literary studies: Which is the “real” Dracula? Which are the psychological, cultural, social and historical impulses determining the actions of the character and the established myth? To what extent the deeds of the personage can be accounted for through the instrumentality of psychological impetus and by the agency of cultural, philosophical, esoteric, and occult principles? Thus can the “real” Dracula be integrated into an ampler context of culture and civilization, where his alienation and his monstrosity belong less to the paradigm of “the other”, of “the stranger” and refer more to the revealing of some of “our” intimately repressed human features? The article proposes a critical examination and reinterpretation of Dracula’s image, starting from the novel Jurnalul lui Dracula (Dracula’s Diary) (1992) by the Romanian writer and academic Marin Mincu. Original responses are being suggested to the questions defined previously – through several writing and literary theory techniques, including references to Corpus Hermeticum. By comparing and contrasting the hermetic philosophical text and the Romanian novel, the essay aims at finding out whether the entire construct of the myth of Dracula can be explained through two cultural and philosophical aspects, namely death and immortality. It also offers a new reading, another conceptualization of a familiar but debatable subject, which reinterprets and even rejects the mainstream view. The work by the extremely well-informed Romanian academic, which was first published in Italy, has nothing in common with Bram Stoker’s (“vampiric falsification”, asserts the author in the preface…), but vividly portrays the “real” Dracula, the Prince Vlad the Impaler, imprisoned in the underground cave of a castle under the Budapest Danube, writing a journal between February, 2nd, 1463 and August, 28th, 1464. In his diary the character recalls his historical fate and legendary destiny through references to aspects of Romanian culture and civilization considered in a European context. For instance, the study approaches topics such as: the religion of Zalmoxis as the philosophical and existential foundation of the Romanians; Dacians’ attitude towards death, as described by Herodotus, which might have influenced Pythagoras, Socrates, the Eleusinian and the Orphic Mysteries; the boycott of history by the Romanian people (an echo from philosopher Lucian Blaga’s writings); the orality of the Romanian culture (as opposed to the written culture of the western Europe); the oral folkloric creations, the ballad Miorița (The Little Ewe) and the fairy-tale Tinerețe fără bătrânețe și viață fără de moarte (Youth without old age and life without death), etc. All of these are put forward within the humanistic, Renaissance context of the epoch, given that Dracula was a friend of Marsilio Ficino, Nicolaus Cusanus, Pope Pius II, Cosimo de’ Medici, etc. Researchers will discover new speculative themes and directions with regard to the seemingly exhausted myth of Dracula.

A Failed National Play? Lucian Blaga’s Zamolxis and the “Romanian Soul”

National theatre was at the forefront of nation-building efforts in Europe at the end of the 19th century. New nations instrumentalized traditional motifs such as legends, myths of origin, and fairytales for their alleged part in shaping “national character.” In this paper I analyze how Lucian Blaga, an iconic playwright and philosopher of romantic-nationalist inspiration, used folklore in Zamolxis, Pagan Mystery (1921) in Romania to mythify the national self-image. Employing a deconstructionist, postcolonial reading of the play, I analyze the use of myth and its role in the construction of the national imaginary. I also situate this process in the geopolitical context of the late 19th and early 20th century Eastern Europe, a place in which several newly created nation-states instrumentalized culture to compete with one another for the legitimization of both territorial claims and political supremacy.

Editorial: Variability of Discourses of Modern Reality in the Linguistic Dimension

IntroductionIn the conditions of a new digital reality, the linguistic and literary world has become even richer of a great variety of discourses. The studies presented in this issue cover a wide scope of subjects, including research on the communicative and linguistic features of the political, public, philosophical, comic, marketing and advertising discourses; analysis of the significance of emotions in human communication; investigation of the role of relationships between sign systems and communication in audiovisual culture; research on the specific features and breadth of the mode of understanding certain cultural, folklore and historical phenomena at the intersection of various humanities and social sciences. The fact that the authors of the publications conducted their research at different levels of the national languages (phonological, phonetic, grammatical, morphological, stylistic and syntactic) also attracts attention to this issue.Thus, these studies demonstrate how changing the thinking of a modern person and as a consequence the entire system of communication and the variety of discourses in its meaningful depths. The authors of these scientific publications evidentially note the growth trend the of discourse-based approaches in the social sciences and humanities which have been gaining popularity throughout the last decades. These researches will be useful for everyone who is interested in the field of media, political science, psychology, linguistics, culture, philosophy and in general to those who, hoping for answers, constantly wander through the changing labyrinths of globalization processes.Guest Editorial BoardGuest Editors-in-ChiefMariia Kryvoshei, Scientific Alliance, UkraineMariia Kryvoshei is a Leading Researcher at the Scientific Alliance, Ukraine. Her research interests lie in semiotics, human perception of language, language competence. Her studies focus on language as a means of communication in different aspects of human life, with special attention being paid to public and philosophical discourses. She believes humans encode and decipher the world through language, and linguistic dimension is one way to perceive and understand reality.Liudmyla Mashtaler, MetaScience, UkraineShe studies the specifics of discourse in education and media, technical means to provide better communication. Her research covers specifics of language and literature studying, learner and teacher identities and their communication skills while touching upon aspects of cultural environment and language choice.MembersDamian Osatiuk, Kamianets-Podіlskyi National Ivan Ohiienko University, UkraineElisa Hercz, Stockholm University, SwedenJūratė Anamov, Mykolas Romeris University, LithuaniaKrzysztof Steve, University of Warsaw, PolandLuke Krause, Free University of Berlin, GermanyMegan Wilson, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, RomaniaNadiia Kolesnyk, Lviv Polytechnic National University, UkraineNoah Ikhsan, Ben-Gurion University & Achvah Academic College, IsraelRostyslav Orban, Lviv National Academy of Arts, Ukraine

Margini Și Repere Metafizice în Poezia Blagiană

Abstract The aim of the present study is to follow how certain theoretical ideas related to the concept of “limit” are transposed in Lucian Blaga’s poetry. The poet’s obsession with metaphysical destruction is well-known. Rationalism destroys the mystery, meaning that it puts limits on the process of intentional and assumed Luciferian knowledge. The poet uses an archaic imaginary to place things in the universality, to go beyond what the human being can perceive. To sum up, the idea I want to demonstrate is that there are several types of limits in Lucian Blaga’s poetry, which will be analyzed, looking at some poems. I have referred to the volumes „Poemele luminii”, „Pașii profetului”, „În marea trecere”, „Lauda somnului”, „Corăbii cu cenușă”, „Cântecul focului”, „Ce aude unicornul” and „Ultimele poezii”.