P

Pantheism, 15 , 57 , 61

Parable:

in Berlin Alexanderplatz,90 , 138 , 189 n.11;

in Wadzek, 36 –38, 43 –44, 48 –49

Partisanship of the active person, 125 , 129 , 143 , 175 . See also Activism versus passivity

Party politics:

Döblin's scorn for, 108 .

See also Politics

Passivity.See Activism versus passivity

Pater absconditus,10 , 50 , 158

Petersen, Julius, 90 , 182

Picaresque, 84

Piscator, Erwin, 68 , 105

Political theater, 105 –6

Politics:

ambiguity about, at end of Berlin Alexanderplatz,87 –91;

Döblin's, 54 –56, 104 –9;

and German middle class as apolitical, 157 .

See also Party politics

Postfiguration, 159 . See also Prefiguration, mythical

Prefiguration, mythical, 39 , 159

Prose, poem, 52

Prostitution:

in Berlin Alexanderplatz,76 , 91 ;

continuity of, as theme in Döblin's works, 183 ;

in Men without Mercy,114 ;

in "On Heavenly Mercy," 30 ;

as result of capitalism, 14 ;

sacred, 25 –27, 48 , 92 , 94 , 181 ;

as theme borrowed from Bebel, 12

Prussian Academy of Sciences, 1

Psychosis, 190 n.16;

in early novels and stories, 16 ;

in Wadzek, 34 , 41 –42, 52 , 180