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Othello Through Critical Lens: Archetypal/Jungian Theory

Keywords for Archetypal/Jungian Theory

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Examples of keywords/concepts:

Myths reveal universal themes and Archetypes (within the Collective Unconscious that include inherited though patterns) such as The Old Man, Hero (Tragic Hero), the Great Mother, Mentor, Trickster, the Shadow, Magician, Persona (Mask or "conformity" archetype), Anima (feminine aspect of male psyche), Animus (masculine aspect of female psyche)

Myth, Symbolism, Dreams, Synchronicity ("meaningful coincidence") of two or more events connected by meaning rather than by chance.

Archetypal Narrative Patterns:  Quest, Good vs. Evil, Transformative

Psychoanalysts: Carl Jung, 
Marie-Louise von Franz, James Hillman, Toni Wolff
Artists: Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Joseph Campbell, James Joyce Philosophers: Jacques Maritain, Victor Turner, Anthony Stevens

Databases

Example of an article:

Burgess, C. F. “Othello’s Occupation.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2, 1975, pp. 208–13. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2869251.

Example of an article:

Main, Roderick. "The Social Significance of Synchronicity." Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, vol. 11, no. 1, 2006, pp. 36-53. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/social-significance-synchronicity/docview/216497450/se-2, doi:https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.pcs.2100067.

Example of an article:

Gallo, Ernest. "Synchronicity and the archetypes." Skeptical Inquirer, vol. 18, no. 4, summer 1994, pp. 396+. Gale General OneFilelink.gale.com/apps/doc/A16139322/GPS?u=nysl_me_nyc72_bh&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=d5e0e7b8

Example of an article:

Fike, Matthew A. "The Primitive in Othello: A Post-Jungian Reading." Shakespearean Criticism, edited by Michelle Lee, vol. 139, Gale, 2011. Gale Literature Criticism, link-gale-com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/apps/doc/CGBEHB067773190/LCO?u=nypl&sid=bookmark-LCO&xid=88e528cd. Originally published in A Jungian Study of Shakespeare: The Visionary Mode, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 85-109.

Example of an eBook:

Stein, Murray and C. G. Jung. Jung on Evil. Princeton University Press, 1995. Project MUSEhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1353/book.119893.