Benefits of a Jungian Archetypal Approach to Literature

My previous posts outlined six objections to using Jungian archetypal theory as a method for approaching a work of literature. This post presents a few of the benefits that come with using Jung’s theory as a tool for literary analysis.   Jung writes that “the human psyche is the womb of all the arts and…

3 More Objections to Jungian Literary Criticism

My previous post outline three objections against a Jungian approach to literary analysis. This post offers three more: Objection 4: Jungian literary criticism is nothing more than source hunting, or finding the external sources of a text. While “[t]he discovery of the presence of mythic elements is a beginning,” Brown states, “identification [of these mythic…