An Analysis of Archetype of Hero's Journey Based on Campbell’s & Jung’s Thoughts

Subject Areas : Mytho

Mohammad Tāheri ¹ ( Associate Professor of of Persian language and Literature, Bu-Ali Sina University )
Hamid Aghājāni ² ( M.A Candidate of Persian Language and Literature, Bu-Ali Sina University )

Received: 2015-05-24 Accepted : 2015-05-24 Published : 2013-09-23

Keywords: Jung, Archetypal Criticism, Shāhnāmeh, Campbell, Hero's Journey, Haft-Khane Rostam,

Abstract :

  Based on Carl Jung’s thoughts, Joseph John Campbell (1904 –1987), proposed the theme of “hero's journey” that opened a new horizon in archetypal literary criticism. Campell’s ideas in archetypal criticism can be used in comparing and analyzing stories, especially archetypal epic ones. The seven labors of Rostam (Haft-Khane Rostam) in Shāhnāmeh can be studied from Campbell’s point of view. Rostam had to pass the seven labors (Haft-Khan) to save Iranian commanders upon his father’s command, Zal. In this journey, besides obtaining material and spiritual gifts, Rostam reaches self-discovery and spiritual perfection.

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Adams, Michael Vannoy. 2010. The Mythological Unconscious. Putnam, CT: Spring Publications.

Bishop, Paul. 1999. Jung in Contexts: A Reader, London: Routledge.

Campbell, Joseph, Phil Cousineau, and Stuart L. Brown. 2003. The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work. Novato, CA: New World Library.

Campbell, Joseph. 2008. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. California: Novato.

Combs, Steven C. 2005. The Dao of Rhetoric, Albany: State University of New York.

Dixon-Kennedy, Mike. 1998. Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman Mythology, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

Ellwood, Robert S. 1999. The Politics of Myth: A Study of C.G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell. Albany: State University of New York.

Jung, Carl Gustav. 1970. The Collected Works of C.G. Jung. Translated by: Herbert Read & Michael Scott Montague Fordham. New York: Pantheon.

Kliewer, Stephen& John W. Saultz. 2006. Healthcare and Spirituality, Oxford: Radcliffe.

Leeming, David Adams & Kathryn Wood Madden& Stanton Marlan. 2010. Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion. New York: Springer.

Makaryk, Irene Rima. 1993. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms; Toronto: University of Toronto.

Neumann, Erich. 1995. The Origins and History of Consciousness, Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP.

Rensma, Ritske. 2009. The Innateness of Myth: a New Interpretation of Joseph Campbell's Reception of C.G. Jung, New York: Continuum.

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Segal, Robert A. 1999. Theorizing about Myth, Amherst: University of Massachusetts.

Seigneuret, Jean-Charles. 1988. Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs, Vol. 1. New York: Greenwood.

Smith, Evans Lansing. 1997.The Hero Journey in Literature: Parables of Poesis, Lanham: University of America.

Sugg, Richard P. 1992. Jungian Literary Criticism, Evanston: IL.

 

 

 

 

 

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