scholarly journals JUNG’S CONCEPT OF ARCHETYPES IN FEMINIST REVISIONIST MYTHOLOGY, IN THE CONTEXT OF M. ATWOOD’S PENELOPIAD AND M. MILLER’S CIRCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (8(72)) ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
O. Legeza
Keyword(s):  
The Feminine ◽  
Mother Archetype ◽  
Jungian Archetypes ◽  
Female Experience

The article deals with the concept of archetypes by K. G. Jung in the context of M. Atwood’s The Penelopiad and M. Miller’s Circe, which represent feminist revisionist mythology tradition. The study focuses on exploring the transformation of the Jungian archetypes of the figures of Penelope and Circe in Atwood and Miller’s novels. The author argues that while in original myths Penelope and Circe represent the archetypes of Mother and the feminine representation of Wise old man, in the novels Penelope’s archetype transforms into Mask, and Circe starts representing Mother archetype. The author comes to the conclusion that such transformation is a result of Atwood and Miller’s dealing with feminist agenda as well their attempt to present different sides of female experience, making mythological figures closer to real women. 

Villette’s Erotic Experimentation

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-56
Author(s):  
Jennifer Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
The Feminine ◽  
Female Masochism ◽  
Female Experience

In Villette, Charlotte Brontë’s narrator Lucy Snowe experiments with what can be read as gendered sadistic and masochistic roles before discovering in M. Paul a mutually masochistic partner. With Ginevra Fanshawe, Lucy dabbles in sadism in the abuse she doles out whereas with Dr. John, Lucy performs as the traditional courted woman who relishes an apparently inactive position as the feminine object of courtship. This relationship with Dr. John is her trial with the kind of inherent female masochism psychoanalysts and sexologists identify as endemic to the female experience. Unsurprisingly, these relationships fail and the satisfaction Lucy yields from them is fleeting and insubstantial. By falling for M. Paul, Lucy is able to successfully link the two worlds with which she previously flirted—the typically female masochistic realm and the conventionally male sadistic realm.

The Journey of the Suffering Servant: The Vulnerable Hero, the Feminine Godhead and Spiritual Transformation in Endō Shūsaku’s Deep River

Exchange ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 320-334
Author(s):  
JinHyok Kim
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Hero's Journey ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Christian Belief ◽  
Spiritual Journey ◽  
Basic Pattern ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Jungian Archetypes ◽  
Suffering Servant

Abstract This study aims to investigate how the Biblical view of the Suffering Servant transforms a basic pattern of the hero’s journey into a narrative of spiritual growth in modern literature. In this article, especially, I will examine the novel Deep River by the 20th-century Japanese Catholic novelist, Endō Shūsaku, paying special attention to his use of Jungian archetypes. Unlike the beautiful and gracious Holy Mother of Christian belief, the image of Endō’s feminine divinity is what we think as ordinary, depressing, shameful, and even ugly. As the very embodiment of this motherly divine Love, the hero of the novel eventually figures out that his journey should be structured analogously to the narrative of the Suffering Servant. This hero helps people discover the mother-like God and invites them into their own spiritual journey in which they accept the vulnerability, ineffectiveness and helplessness of human existence.

The Legacy of the Terrible Mother Archetype in Post-War British Drama

2021 ◽  
pp. 174-192
Author(s):  
Işıl Şahin Gülter
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Creative Power ◽  
British Drama ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Mother Archetype ◽  
Post War ◽  
Comprehensive Framework

The theatre provides the playwrights with a public platform through which they open up a more comprehensive framework to reinterpret the concept of the feminine. The chapter, in which translation remains a fundamental instrument that will be utilized to offer new interpretations to old ideas about the feminine, explores how the post-war British woman playwright Ann Jellicoe translates a women-related myth and reinterprets the concept of the feminine in The Sport of My Mad Mother (w.1958, r.1962). In this context, the chapter focuses on the concept of the Terrible Mother archetype which represents the female creative power as well as the potential for destruction in the play within a special reference to Jung's premises on the archetypal nature of the femininity and maternity. Thus, the chapter indicates that Ann Jellicoe, taking on board and challenging the perceived social, ideological, and psychological ideals of femininity, reclaims the legacy of the female strength.

The Gender Typicality of Faces and Its Impact on Visual Processing and on Hiring Decisions

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 444-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa von Stockhausen ◽  
Sara Koeser ◽  
Sabine Sczesny
Keyword(s):  
Visual Processing ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Visual Exploration ◽  
Facial Appearance ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Hiring Decisions ◽  
Leadership Selection ◽  
Gender Typicality ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
The Feminine

Past research has shown that the gender typicality of applicants’ faces affects leadership selection irrespective of a candidate’s gender: A masculine facial appearance is congruent with masculine-typed leadership roles, thus masculine-looking applicants are hired more certainly than feminine-looking ones. In the present study, we extended this line of research by investigating hiring decisions for both masculine- and feminine-typed professional roles. Furthermore, we used eye tracking to examine the visual exploration of applicants’ portraits. Our results indicate that masculine-looking applicants were favored for the masculine-typed role (leader) and feminine-looking applicants for the feminine-typed role (team member). Eye movement patterns showed that information about gender category and facial appearance was integrated during first fixations of the portraits. Hiring decisions, however, were not based on this initial analysis, but occurred at a second stage, when the portrait was viewed in the context of considering the applicant for a specific job.

The Feminine in Jungian and American Psychology

1995 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-330
Author(s):  
Clayton P. Alderfer
Keyword(s):  
American Psychology ◽  
The Feminine

Disruptions of the Local, Eruptions of the Feminine: Local Reportage and National Anxieties in Egypt’s 1890s

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Booth
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Female Images ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Advocacy Role ◽  
Representations Of Women ◽  
Gendered Expectations

This chapter demonstrates that inscriptions of female images in Cairo’s late nineteenth-century nationalist press were part of a discursive economy shaping debates on how gender roles and gendered expectations should shift as Egyptians struggled for independence. The chapter investigates content and placement of ‘news from the street’ in al-Mu’ayyad in the 1890s, examining how these terse local reports – equivalent to faits divers in the French press – contributed to the construction of an ideal national political trajectory with representations of women serving as the primary example in shaping a politics of newspaper intervention on the national scene. In this, an emerging advocacy role of newspaper correspondents makes the newspaper a mediator in the construction of activist reader-citizens.

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