I was reading over some old journals‚ working on my book‚ when I came across this little entry I wrote after watching the film version of Beowulf‚ a book I read a few times in college. At the time‚ I was in therapy‚ and really interested in psychoanalytic literary theory. I was struck by how our life experiences and new knowledge can deepen our knowledge of a text we thought we knew pretty well. Anyway‚ here ’s my mini psycho-analysis of Beowulf: The story explores the idea of the sins‚ or pathologies
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Odysseus and his men stab him in the eye and when morning came to let the sheep in to the pasture they held on to the belly. Denouement: The men escape two men were eaten. Character: Polyphemus who was the one-eyed monster son of Poseidon. Archetype: Polyphemus is a shadow character. Chapter: The Witch Circe The Setting: Aeolia Conflict: Circe a young goddess. Complications: Circe gives them a magic potion and puts them in a pig sty Climax: Hermes gives Odysseus
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Claudia Miriello 3/19/13 D Period Every story contains archetypes and these archetypes have been the same throughout history. These archetypes help the reader in many ways. The heroic archetype reflects human nature in the characters Ralph and Sir Gawain through their reluctance to become a hero and the acknowledgement of their faults. People do not always get to choose the bearings they go through in life. Both Sir Gawain and Ralph did not originally set out to
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deeper form of the unconscious the personal one. This was the collective unconscious‚ where the archetypes exist in such as the shadow is an archetype that consists of the sex and life instincts. The shadow exists as part of the unconscious mind and is composed of repressed ideas‚ weaknesses‚ desires‚ etc. Carl Jung made subsections of Sigmund Freud’s theory on the unconscious by dividing them into archetypes like the self‚ shadow‚ anima and persona. Like many who held opposing views with Freud‚
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Holden Caulfield is a dynamic character. In the beginning of the story‚ Holden has the heroic archetype of the seeker. The seeker is unsatisfied with life and has a desperate wish to feel fulfilled‚ yet this search causes them to overlook the things they already have. This definitely embodies Holden in the start of the book‚ “…then I yelled at the top of my goddam voice‚ ‘sleep tight‚ ya morons!’... then I got the hell out”. This shows how he simply despises life in his current situation. He dislikes
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Dream Analysis Paper: Psychology 100 Spring 2013 Yvonne Valenzuela‚ Ed.D. William Austin 3/17/13 Dreams are often derived from the inner thresholds of an individual’s thoughts and repressed emotions. My dreams have been significantly complex‚ converging into metamorphic symbols that relate to significant past and present events. After a week of dream analysis‚ I believe dreams have an effect on
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rationality‚ the balance of the aspects of the self‚ and the existence of mental harmony and synchronicity. - He used the following key words; Complexes‚ Archetypes‚ Neurosis and Psychosis. - Jung indicated that for one to have normal behavior‚ he must have a balance in the aspects of the self‚ balance in the complexes and balance in the archetypes.
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everyone in their life time. In the two completely different stories of Oedipus and Batman they both have them same story line. Batman and Oedipus are two different types of heroes but the same when it comes to the archetype theme of tragic forbidden love. In this essay I will explain archetypes‚ themes‚ and what the themes of these stories are. Forbidden love happens in all great stories. Some of the greatest include Titanic‚ and Romeo and Juliette. Yet Unlike Romeo and Juliette Batman and Oedipus’
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the world could be connected to anything in the modern world‚ you’re probably not the only one. But to understand how all these modern day things are connected to myths we must know about archetypes first. Archetypes are very special symbols. Arch means original and type stands for stand or model. An archetype
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warrior and leader who fits the archetype of the tragic hero in many ways. The hero go through certain events that lead to his rise of prominence‚ to fit the archetype of a tragic hero. Okonkwo rises to prominence by defeating Amanlinze the Cat in a wrestling contest‚ growing a large farm of yams from nothing‚ and helping to lead his village to many victories in war. Also‚ the audience must feel enormous fear and pity for this hero in order to fit the archetype‚ which Okonkwo’s audience feel for
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