A Jungian Study of Shakespeare
Title | A Jungian Study of Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | M. Fike |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2009-02-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230618553 |
Employing the analytical psychology of Carl Jung, Matthew A. Fike provides a fresh understanding of individuation in Shakespeare. This study of "the visionary mode" - Jung s term for literature that comes through the artist from the collective unconscious - combines a strong grounding in Jungian terminology and theory with myth criticism, biblical literary criticism, and postcolonial theory. Fike draws extensively on the rich discussions in the Collected Works of C. G. Jung to illuminate selected plays such as A Midsummer Night s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Henriad, Othello, and Hamlet in new and surprising ways. Fike s clear and thorough approach to Shakespeare offers exciting, original scholarship that will appeal to students and scholars alike.
Jungian Study of Shakespeare: The Visionary Mode
Title | Jungian Study of Shakespeare: The Visionary Mode PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781349376902 |
The Psyche on Stage
Title | The Psyche on Stage PDF eBook |
Author | Edward F. Edinger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
This text, which examines such plays as Measure for Measure, and Oedipus the King, traces the archetypal manifestations of the sacred marriage, the search for wholeness, and the tragic hero, through psychological analysis of Shakespeare and Sophocles.
Individuation and the Power of Evil on the Nature of the Human Psyche
Title | Individuation and the Power of Evil on the Nature of the Human Psyche PDF eBook |
Author | Ryder Jordan-Finnegan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780773457539 |
This study examines two primary plays: After the Fall by Arthur Miller and The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by William Shakespeare. These plays are analyzed using a Jungian approach; by focusing on certain components of Jung's theory of individuation, the development of personality, and the power of evil, the study provides evidence that the two main characters, Quentin and Hamlet, respectively, come to a place of moral differentiation.
Shakespeare and Jungian Typology
Title | Shakespeare and Jungian Typology PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Tucker |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2010-06-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780786482047 |
The reader of Shakespeare has always been curious about the Bard's actual religion, opinions, sexual orientation, and relationships. We would like to ask him why his Hamlet is so indecisive, whether Henry V is his ideal ruler, and whether he himself fell in love with Rosalind. The Jungian theories of psychology used in literary interpretation have almost always involved a broader theory of archetypes rather than concentrating on more specific psychological types, despite Jung's belief that an understanding of these types is vital to self-realization. Jung's typological theories, applied to literary studies, may illuminate the personalities of fictional characters and indeed of the author himself. The psychological type of a writer's character can be understood as a projection of the author's own personality: Iago can show Shakespeare's rational function whereas Othello embodies the expression of the dramatist's capacity to experience emotion. Thus Jungian typology initiates a quasi-biographical approach to understanding writers and their works. Instead of directing attention toward an author's education, class prejudices, and so on, it leans toward important emotional undercurrents within the writings, which in turn express similar currents within the author's psyche. Jungian psychetypology is long overdue in gaining recognition as a tool for literary analysis, and this work applies these theories to the full spectrum of Shakespeare's plays in detailed individual readings and comparisons.
Jung's Advice to the Players
Title | Jung's Advice to the Players PDF eBook |
Author | Sally F Porterfield |
Publisher | Praeger |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1994-09-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0313293058 |
Shakespeare's problem plays present an unusually fertile field for Jungian tillage. Like a face glimpsed in a crowd and then lost, these works seem to hint at truths just beyond our grasp. Viewed through the lens of Jung's theory of archetypes, pieces fall into place with remarkable clarity, each revolving around a specific critical axis that allows us to see the form and structure that elude us in other readings. The author argues that Jung's theories offer the best key to date for these most intriguing of literary and dramatic puzzles.
The Jungian Art. The Jungian Persona in Shakespeare's works
Title | The Jungian Art. The Jungian Persona in Shakespeare's works PDF eBook |
Author | Aleksandra Vujovic |
Publisher | GRIN Verlag |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2022-01-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3346580474 |
Document from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: This work deals with various characters from Shakespeare's works and analyses them according to the Jungian Art. In the individuation process, Shakespeare sides with Jung related to the role and importance of the concept of free will. None of Shakespeare’s heroes follow their fate as an externally imposed, inevitable chain of events which lead to their doom. Rather, it is their lack of self-knowledge and self-control as a sign of their failed individuation that causes their tragic ends. These characters embody a soul which is in many ways great and noble, but which has a fatal flaw which plays the role of fate. In Jungian terms, fate can be interpreted as unrecognized psychological processes or archetypes that are not dealt with, which therefore influence or lead the actions of the ego conscience. Shakespeare explores in depth these flaws to which the tragic hero, after an inner conflict, fails to attempt to deal with the archetypal psychic forces. The result is that the tragic hero loses his soul, the link to the archetype of Self as both the motivator and the goal of the individuation process. In that regard, when we examine, for example, Othello, it is obvious that the cause of his crisis and ruin is psychological and that his intellectual confusion is not the cause but rather the result of the chaos in his psyche. In Jungian terms, Othello, as the ego consciousness, struggles and fails to understand and establish a functioning relationship with both Iago and Desdemona, respectively seen as his shadow and anima. The importance of dealing with these archetypes as a means of reaching psychic balance as one of the indicators of a successfully ongoing individuation process, is described from a Jungian point of view.