Essays about: "carl jung"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words carl jung.

  1. 1. Understanding Locke & Key: A Semiotic and Intertextual study of the Collective Unconscious and some of its Archetypes in Locke & Key

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Henrik Rogowski; [2020]
    Keywords : Comic books; Horror; Intertextuality; Julia Kristeva; Psychoanalysis; Carl Jung; Collective unconsciousness; Archetypes; Roland Barthes; Semiotics; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis’ focus will be on the comic book series Locke & Key in a semiotic and an intertextual reading through a psychoanalytical framework. The comic series is described as a “psychological horror” and a main theme running across the six volumes is good versus evil, and a lot of the narrative is helped by magical keys. READ MORE

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. The Jungian Hobbit: Bilbo’s Individuation Process in the Archetypal Hero Story The Hobbit

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Pontus Brandt; [2018]
    Keywords : Archetypes; Carl Jung; The Hobbit.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist, is best known for his theories of the archetypes, which are universal and archaic images that are nestled deep inside the part of the psyche that Jung coined the ‘collective unconscious.’ These can be found in art, such as literature, and be extracted and analyzed. READ MORE

  5. 4. Breaking the Gender Norms : Bilbo as the Feminine Hero in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Hanna Karlsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Tolkien; The Hobbit; Bilbo; gender norms; femininity; heroism;

    Abstract : This essay demonstrates how Bilbo, the main protagonist of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, is a feminine hero despite being male. READ MORE

  6. 5. Breaking Down the Reflex-Machine in Three Works by Philip K. Dick

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Sara Gaarn-Larsen; [2018]
    Keywords : Philip K. Dick; Postmodernism; reflex-machine; androidization; science fiction; The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch; A Maze of Death; A Scanner Darkly;

    Abstract : This thesis expands upon Philip K. Dick’s philosophy surrounding ‘androidization’, a process of degradation leading to the devolution of individuals into what he termed as ‘reflex-machines’. READ MORE