Sep 7, 2008
Historically, an archetypal approach to poetry is derived from Sir James Frazer’s work in comparative anthropology, The Golden Bough (1890-1915), and from the depth psychology of Carl Jung. Frazer discovered certain repetitive cultural patterns which transcended time and place appearing in widely different myths and literatures. Jung posited the existence of a collective unconscious within each individual, a racial memory which held a variety of archetypes. The archetypes or...
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