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ARCHETYPAL THEORY

Sigmund Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. He based many of his theories on the idea of the social archetype which causes archetypal theory to have similarities with Psychological Criticism (which we will look at later this semester. His pupil, Carl Jung, refined Freud’s theories and expanded them into a more cross-cultural philosophy.

Critics who examine texts from a archetypal standpoint are looking for symbols. Jung defined an archetype as “a figure...that repeats itself in the course of history wherever creative fantasy is fully manifested.” ARCHETYPAL THEORY

Jung theorized that human beings were born with an innate knowledge of certain archetypes. The evidence of this, Jung claimed, lay in the fact that some myths are repeated throughout history in cultures and eras that could not possibly have had any contact with one another. ARCHETYPAL THEORY

Every culture has a creation story, a life-after-death belief, and a reason for human failings, and these stories— when studied comparatively—are far more similar than different. ARCHETYPAL THEORY

When looking for archetypes, critics take note of general themes, characters, and situations that recur in literature across writers, genres, periods, and societies. ARCHETYPAL THEORY

Traditional literary and mythological archetypes can be successfully translated to other genres and time periods. Because they draw on feelings, situations, concerns, and issues that have been a part of the human condition in every generation, the plays of William Shakespeare, the novels of Jane Austen, the episodes of Homer can be, and have been, updated and reformatted time and time again. ARCHETYPAL THEORY

1. archetypal characters 2. archetypal images 3. archetypal situations (See handout for more detailed examples) THREE MAIN POINTS OF STUDY

1.Examine all of the characters—major and minor— and their situations. What archetypes seem to be present? 2.How do any of the characters change over time? What events or people make them change? 3.What is suggested in the setting (time of day, season of year, location—garden, body of water, etc.) that might suggest an archetypal reading? ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

4.What types of symbols are used? What do they represent? 5.How are the symbols in this work different from the traditional uses of those symbols? What is significant about this difference? 6.What myths are at work in different parts of this work? What features of the story are reminiscent of other stories you know? ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS