sentences:  Placing his references in German Romanticism and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust", the critic found the tragic figure of Euphorion (in "") as an ideal image of "all things new on a spiritual level".The core idea, occasionally paraphrased as "Euphorionism", was defined by Negoiţescu himself in terms of an Apollonian and Dionysian opposition, with a preference for the former term, and in combination with "modern Faustianism, that is to say dynamism, imprudent haste.