Jungian Literary Criticism

Demonstrating how ideas such as archetypes, the anima and animus, the unconscious and synchronicity can be applied to the analysis of literature, this introductory book is accessibly written with summary points for each chapter and key concepts clearly explained.

Chapter 1: Why Jung? Why Literary Criticism: An Introduction; Chapter 2: Jung, Reading, Writing: Signs, Symbols, Close Reading as Active Imagination, Alchemy; Chapter 3: Jung and Literary Forms: Archetypes, Individuation, Myth; Chapter 4: Jung and Literary Genre: Shadow, Anima/Animus, Self and the Numinous, Trickster; Chapter 5: Jung for History and Historicity in Literary Studies; Chapter 6; Jung and Literary Studies for the Anthropocene, Climate Change and Ecocriticism; References.