One of the new types of literary criticism is archetype criticism which is based on psychological criticism and Carl Gustav Jung’s theories – famous and contemporary Swiss psychologist. He believes that human’s mind is made of three stages: conscious,
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One of the new types of literary criticism is archetype criticism which is based on psychological criticism and Carl Gustav Jung’s theories – famous and contemporary Swiss psychologist. He believes that human’s mind is made of three stages: conscious, personal unconscious and collective unconscious. The deepest stage is collective unconscious in which myths, fables and human’s millennium beliefs are derived from. Jung called the results of collective unconscious as the initial samples of archetypes which represent different manifestations such as mother, wise old man, hero, Anima, Animus, rebirth, shadow and persona. According to Jung, archetypal images do not possess content per se; thus they represent themselves in the form of symbols in dreams. Today archetype is the main subject of literary criticism and specifically mythical criticism. Since Molana was a mystic with symbolic mind and versed Mathnavi mysteriously, the present research studies archetype symbols of Mathnavi by Molana based on secondary archetype and color subsidiary.
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