Jungian Approach to Individuation of Personality in the Short Story Empty Rooms by Can Xue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21182023 |
|---|---|
| Authors | М Voina, Marina VOINA (0000-0002-0447-7928, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), Olha Vorobei (0000-0003-4956-8943, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 2021 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 55-65 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The World of the Orient (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1608-0599 • E-ISSN: 1682-5268 |
| Publisher | National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Co. LTD Ukrinformnauka) (Publications) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.15407/orientw2021.03.055 |
| OpenAlex | W3202705278 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 14 |
Creative work is the highest and most complex form of mental activity, so the elaboration of the role of the unconscious in the structure of artistic creativity and perception is important for the analysis of the psychology of art and fiction works.According to C. G. Jung, the birth of each work is always associated with the action of powerful forces that rest in the collective unconscious and are manifested through the work of an individual artist.In Jungian psychology, Individuation is the process of achieving psychological maturation wherein individuals are integrating their conscious and unconscious mind to create a balanced/mature psyche.The motif of the individuation in literature covers a range of situations in which an individual -typically young, often innocent person -experiences during the plot of the story a moment of enlightenment, a discovery or an initiation leading to recognition of a "significant truth about the world, society people, or [one] self".A modern Chinese writer Can Xue (残雪, born in 1953) is especially interested in the workings of the mind, thus her works often deal with notions, ideas, and images that lend themselves to a Jungian reading, specifically from the perspective of the principle of individuation which is to be the focus of this analysis.Can Xue's imagination creates a mysterious and ghostly atmosphere of a literary text, filled with amazing and scary images.The writer has the ability to penetrate deeply into the depths of the human psyche, to unequivocally reveal the tragic essence of human existence through the prism of her own life experience.Thus, the amplification method developed by C. G. Jung, in combination with historical and comparative typological methods, made it possible to carry out an analytical interpretation of Can Xue' Empty Rooms ("空房间", 2009) short story from the standpoint of self-hood and its reflective consciousness.In the short story Empty Rooms there are several aspects of the unconscious mind (The Buildings, The Doors, The Archetypical Inhabitants, The Home Search) that need to be integrated with the conscious, psychological components consisting of all rejected and repressed aspects of one's personality.The process of dealing with all these aspects is analogous to the journey of the Hero archetype, and the goal of this journey is Individuation, whereby one becomes connected to their Self, an archetype that represents wholeness and totality
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |