The presence of archetypes is an essential element of the quest storyline, both in American and foreign literature. Pioneers of the archetype concept include scholars Joseph Campbell, Christopher Vogler, and Carl Jung, whose notions of archetypal literature developed into what most academics accept as the characteristic blueprint for a quest story today. Though these archetypes were first described just over a hundred years ago, they have persisted throughout literary and visual art for millennia
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“A man sets out on a journey, dreaming of a beautiful or magical place, in pursuit of some unknown treasure”. The Alchemist is about how Santiago is having a recurring dream of his personal legend. Then it talks about how he got there and what he went through. In the novel, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho the hero's journey reveals that there are many steps and obstacles to pass or get through before reaching your personal legend. There are so many steps and obstacles, you need to prepare for before
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Carl Jung thought of Sigmund Freud not only as a friend, but also that of a father figure with whom he could not only open his mind up to, but also his heart. Sigmund Freud thought Jung was energetic and a new and exciting addition to the psychoanalytical movement. But these feeling were about to change. Their friendship was also to end. Jung and Freud were a lot like and also had very different opinions. They both believed that the content of dreams should be interpreted, and that this would
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The Alchemist is a very unique book like no other. Although the book shows many messages and themes, there is also other many pieces of literature, art, music, and films that express or set the same message. One piece of literature that relates to the Alchemist is “The Last Shots” by Yuri Bondarev. This book expresses the theme of fear which is also portrayed in the Alchemist. The book focuses on the soldier's perspective of war and how they were compelled to be in the war. A musical piece that relates
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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a series of “two-choice items concerning preferences or inclinations in feelings or behavior” (Aiken & Groth-Marnat, 2006, p. 401). This assessment is scored on four scales: “Introversion-Extroversion (I-E), Sensing-Intuition (S-N), Thinking-Feeling (T-F), and Judging-Perceptive (J-P)” (Aiken & Groth-Marnat, 2006, p. 401). With these four scales the MBTI assessment can come up with 16 possible personality types. The MBTI searches for “preferences
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This article holds the title of "USING CONTROL-MASTERY SND JUNGIAN THEORIES TO TREAT NIGHTMARE DISORDER: A KASE FROM THAILAND''. It is written by Elsegood, Wongpakaran, and Wannarit. This paper will give a brief background about dreams and what might cause them, and to what do they indicate. This paper also discuss the Control Mastery Theory (CMT), and the Jungian theory, in order to interpret a Thai woman's depressing dreams and treating her nightmare disorder. Then comes the therapy process, and
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The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, is the first novel I have chosen to read and discuss about in regards to my essay assignment, and the second novel is Looking for Alaska, by John Green. The topic that is relevant to the novels, deals with Personal journeys and self realization. This enlightenment that the characters reach at one point in the novel is the very essence that is desired by many men and women across the globe. Some may say that we are all wandering aimlessly, yet not all those who wander
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philosophy, and linguistics. The core focus of cognitive psychology is on how people acquire, process and store information. There are four key milestones in the development of psychology as a discipline such as the Sigmund Freud’s, theory of personality, Carl Jung’s theory of the Collective Unconscious, Alfred Adler’s and Humanistic Psychology and Albert Ellis’ Rational Emotive Theory (RET). Sigmund Freud’s, personality theory encourage scientist to look into the unseen, unconscious and underlying factors
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Psychoanalysis originated with Freud’s therapy and theory of personality. Freud believed the personality consisted of three structures: the id, the ego and the superego. The id houses the desires and urges of the unconscious and constantly seeks pleasure or avoids pain by gratifying instincts through reflexive actions such as sneezing or wish fulfillment which is seeking relief from discomfort through mental images such as dreams to provide temporary relief. The ego works through intelligent reasoning
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Fifth Business: More Than Meets The Eye Jeffery Soy Carl Jung’s literary archetypes determine the structure of literary works. In the novel Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies, many of Jung’s archetypes are reflected in the characters. These archetypes include the Eternal Boy, the Wise Old Man, the Hero, the Maiden, and the Persona. The characters of Boy Staunton, Dunny Ramsay, Paul Dempster, Mary Dempster, and Leola Cruikshank symbolize these archetypes and support the overall theme of appearance
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