Jung as a Writer traces a relationship between Jung and literature by analysing his texts using the methodology of literary theory. This investigation serves to illuminate the literary nature of Jung's writing in order to shed new light on his...
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Jung as a Writer traces a relationship between Jung and literature by analysing his texts using the methodology of literary theory. This investigation serves to illuminate the literary nature of Jung's writing in order to shed new light on his psychology and its relationship with literature as a cultural practice. Jung employed literary devices throughout his writing, including direct and indirect argument, anecdote, fantasy, myth, epic, textual analysis and metaphor. Susan Rowland examines Jung's use of literary techniques in several of his works, including Anima
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-215) and index. - Print version record
Introduction: Jung and literatureMyth: representing the self in auto/biography -- Gender: the dialectic of anima and animus -- Argument: writing beyond tragic science in 'On the nature of the psyche' -- Nature: alchemy and ecocriticism -- History: time, space and chronotope -- Culture: ethics, synchronicity and the goddess -- Epilogue: Hamlet and Psyche.
