Essays about: "Jungian theory"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Jungian theory.

1. 1. A Jungian Reading of The Midnight Library : Individuation Theory and Literary Criticism

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : HANA MIKAEILI; [2023]
   Keywords : Jung; Matt Haig; Jungian literary criticism; individuation; mother archetype; animus; complex; shadow; library; mental health;

   Abstract : The essay is a Jungian reading of the novel The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig, using Jung’s individuation theory. The author attends to the psychological journey of Nora, the protagonist on a quest of finding her identity. She struggles with anxiety and depression and commits suicide. READ MORE

3. 2. Chasing the Unattainable: Manifestations of Desire in Selected Novels by Carson McCullers

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Hans Ingvar Marmén; [2022]
   Keywords : Carson McCullers; Desire; Lacan; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The American author Carson McCullers’s often non-normative fictional characters typically desire something they cannot have and thus a pattern of nonreciprocal love and desire permeate much of her work. Earlier scholarship on her fiction has focused on themes of isolation as well as the element of symbolism but also psychological approaches including Freudian and Jungian perspectives have been taken. READ MORE

4. 3. Witches are not so delicate : A Jungian analysis of gendered oppression in Madeline Miller’s Circe and the novel’s pedagogical potential in the EFL classroom

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Hermansson Ida; [2022]
   Keywords : Jungian theory; hegemony masculinity; Circe; EFL classroom; gender oppression; literary education; feminist pedagogy; Upper Secondary School;

   Abstract : Circe (2018) by Madeline Miller is a retelling of The Odyssey from the perspective of the witch Circe. The novel challenges the previous portrayal of Circe as a vindictive seductress and provides insight into the narrative of a woman negotiating a man’s world, in which she is denied autonomy due to her gender. READ MORE

5. 4. The process of Individuation in Willy Loman : A Jungian Archetypal Literary Analysis of the Protagonist in Arthur Miller’s Play Death of a Salesman Compared to the Classical Hero of Odysseus in Homer’s The Odyssey

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Joakim Åberg; [2019]
   Keywords : Archetypal Literary Criticism; Jungian archetypes; Individuation; Willy Loman; Death of a Salesman; Odysseus; The Odyssey;

   Abstract : This study is an archetypal literary analysis of Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman and Homer’s The Odyssey. The analysis aims to demonstrate how Arthur Miller’s protagonist, Willy Loman, in Death of a Salesman demonstrates several stages of Carl Gustav Jung’s theory of the individuation process, similar to Odysseus in Homer’s The Odyssey. READ MORE

6. 5. Doppelgänger students and cast shadows: An updated archetypal analysis of the doppelgängers Mr. Hyde and William W2

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Utbildningsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Johanna Wänehag; [2015]
   Keywords : Archetypal analysis; critical pedagogy; Otherness; Schema; Shadow complex; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This paper is a proposition of how to use an archetypal analysis based on new theoretical concepts of the Jungian archetypes, such as the image schema (Knox, 2001), the bi-polarity of complexes (Perry, 1970), and the culture complex (Singer, 2006). Consequently, these are combined with the cognitive schema theory, cues and the cultural frame switch theory. READ MORE