Personality Analysis in Saadi's Gulestān and Bustān Based on the Seven Planetary Types of William Ben Ham
Subject Areas : شاهنامه
Mohammad Hossein Nikdarasl
1
(Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Yasuj University (corresponding author))
Isa Bahmanyar
2
(M.A. in Persian Language and Literature, Yasuj University)
Keywords: personality, Saadi, Planetary Types, Ben Ham,
Abstract :
One of the valuable and important aspects of Saadi's works is his thoughtful attitude towards human personality and Its characteristics. Saadi's view of man, his personality, and its manifestations in different strata of society exposed in Saadi's Gulestān and Bustān, have significant for research. As a master psychologist and psychoanalyst, Saadi sometimes speaks as the ruler and sometimes as dervish, child, woman, thief, scholar, etc., represented the types of personality in society. William Ben Ham is a contemporary psychologist who has studied the personality of human beings in a special way. By using the beliefs of people in different civilizations and territories on the efficiency of the sky and constellations on human life and attributing human characteristics such as courage, love, knowledge, etc. to them, has provided a special perspective in the analysis of human personality. In this research, we try to show the homogeneity or heterogeneity of Saadi and William Ben Ham's works in the personality discourse by comparative reading, and to answer what is prominent similarity and alignment what is the prominent similarity and alignment of Saadi's work with Ben Ham personality method? It can be said that the remarkable frequency of this comparative research showed that the nature of Jupiter, which deals with the king-ruler, is reflected in Saadi's writings.
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