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        1 - The Neural Correlates of Jungian Collective Unconscious
        اسماعیل دهقان
        This paper tries to study the question of whether the notion ofcollective unconscious as developed by Jung has any neural correlates.Also, the notion will be pinned down with respect to the realm ofcognitive science as well as the interpretation of modern cognitivepsych More
        This paper tries to study the question of whether the notion ofcollective unconscious as developed by Jung has any neural correlates.Also, the notion will be pinned down with respect to the realm ofcognitive science as well as the interpretation of modern cognitivepsychologists. For example, it will be shown that unconscious humanemotions somehow are related to the long term memory which hasgenetic base in psychology and is based on the changes in genotypestructure. With reference to the ideas projected by people such asRoederer, Panksepp, and McLennan, it will be clarified that why innatural dreams and imaginations, there are always fixed backgrounds,called archetypes by Jung. The claim, then, is that archetypes have todo with brain structure, neurons, and genetics of the brain structure. Manuscript profile
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        2 - Jung and Psychology of Religion
        اشرف باقری پور
        Psychology as a knowledge has a direct relationship with religion.Therefore, there are different theories and approaches in psychology tostudy religion and its impact on the human psyche. Carl Gustav Jung(1875-1961) Swiss psychologist and founder of Analytical psycholog More
        Psychology as a knowledge has a direct relationship with religion.Therefore, there are different theories and approaches in psychology tostudy religion and its impact on the human psyche. Carl Gustav Jung(1875-1961) Swiss psychologist and founder of Analytical psychologyis one of the psychologists; who has done extensive research in thefield of religion. With his proposed theory of 'CollectiveUnconsciousness' he considered the origin of religion far beyond thenon-cognitive reasons such as trauma, fear, and poverty. He tried tojustify human tendencies toward religion through novel ways. Thepurpose of this article is to review of Jung's consideration on religionand the religious thought on a descriptive – analytical procedures .Inthis regard; first of all, Jung analytical psychology is introduced briefly,then analytical psychology thoughts on issues such as religiondefinition, religion origin, religiosity consequences and perceives ofGod is considered. The review will continue and criticize each concept.Despite Jung's psychology and positivist view of religion has beensubjected to intense criticism but additionally, these studies andcriticism shows that: He has a positive view about religion and he wasalways considered as one of the defenders of it. Manuscript profile
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        3 - Religious Experience According to Yung
        جواد Firoozi زینت Hosseini Daneshvar
        Religious Experience simply means to encounter with the Holy or with a transcendent being. Manifested within individuals, this aspect of religion(s) related to the specific rituals of a certain religion. This kind of experience helps man release from suffering and diffi More
        Religious Experience simply means to encounter with the Holy or with a transcendent being. Manifested within individuals, this aspect of religion(s) related to the specific rituals of a certain religion. This kind of experience helps man release from suffering and difficulties and enables him to resist unwilling situations. One’s cognitive system, thus, may survive inside a secure shelter. William James is the first scholar to use the term, while Yung furthered the inherited concept in the 20th century. According to Yung, religion is based on the sacred experience or Numinous and means surrender to a higher power. Rooted in the collective unconscious which in turn contains archetypes, religious beliefs and dogmas are believed to be the outer manifestation of the inner part of our psyche, derived from within the experience of any certain religion. Manuscript profile
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        4 - Individuation in sa'adi
        Amir Nikseresht Ghadam li Sarrami Mehri Talkhabi Toraj Aghgaie
        One of the most important areas of literary psychology is devoted to the  analysis of the psychological processes of the mind. Carl Gustav Jung, the Swiss pioneer of this area, known as Analytical Psychology, put the mind on a higher level than the previous psychol More
        One of the most important areas of literary psychology is devoted to the  analysis of the psychological processes of the mind. Carl Gustav Jung, the Swiss pioneer of this area, known as Analytical Psychology, put the mind on a higher level than the previous psychologists, including his master, Freud. He added "collective unconscious" to those analyses. He believed that man may exceed his individual boundaries and enter a world of the "collective unconscious." What set Jung apart from his peers in the discussion of the "collective unconscious" was attention to the "eternal form" or "archetype." And that’s what Jung believed shapes our personality and behavior, as well as what makes us different from others due to the formation of personality and behavior. Like any other human being, Saadi was also influenced by these archetypes, and it can be claimed that, under these influences, he engaged in literary creations and the creation of brilliant literary anecdotes. One of the most important archetypes influencing Saadi was the archetype of "shadow", but what distinguishes Saadi from others is his reluctance to conceal the influence of this archetype on his behavior and personality. Manuscript profile
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        5 - The Analysis of Jungian Individuation in the Story of “Daquqi” from Rumi’s Masnavi Manavi
        Mina Jani Tooraj Aghdaie Mehri Talkhabi Nozhat Noohi
        Psychoanalysis is one of the most important theories which focuses on the inner and hidden meanings of the story. Currently, with the connection of literature and psychology more and more, we can find a way to discover the meaning hidden in the texts. Jung's theory of i More
        Psychoanalysis is one of the most important theories which focuses on the inner and hidden meanings of the story. Currently, with the connection of literature and psychology more and more, we can find a way to discover the meaning hidden in the texts. Jung's theory of individuality reviews the realization of the archetype of the self, i.e. the balance between external and internal forces with the desire for evolution in the individual. We are going to reread a story from Masnavi with this perspective. Since Rumi is a mystic who has a symbolist mind and wrote the Masnavi in ​​the form of a mystical work, the work is potential for archetypal criticism. Thus, the present research tries to analyze the content, symbols and archetypes to extract the correct story and by understanding them and matching with the equal symbol for them, based on Jung's theory of individuation, draw this process. The result of the research indicates that in this story, Rumi has proposed transcendence with mystical principles in reaching the process of individuality, and finally, Rumi's goal, which is to achieve perfection and self-knowledge, is in line with Jung's theory. This research has been investigated with a library-documentary method, with an analytical-descriptive approach. Manuscript profile
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        6 - Allegorical images of Animus in Forough Farrokhzad's poems
        Mohammad Reza Kamali Baniyani
        One of the influential poets in Persian literature is Forough Farrokhzad. Due to the dominance of his idealistic poetry in contrast to idealistic poetry, his poetry has shifted to a kind of democratic poetry. Careful analysis of his poems shows the metamorphosis and met More
        One of the influential poets in Persian literature is Forough Farrokhzad. Due to the dominance of his idealistic poetry in contrast to idealistic poetry, his poetry has shifted to a kind of democratic poetry. Careful analysis of his poems shows the metamorphosis and metamorphosis of his poems from a kind of taste hermeneutics to a kind of philosophical hermeneutics. The purpose of this study is to show the allegorical forms in Forough Farrokhzad's poems. This research has been done by descriptive-analytical method and by examining the revelation of allegorical aspects of animus in Forough Farrokhzad's poems.Based on this research, it is determined what are the examples of animus that Forough Farrokhzad has used in his poems and what effect each of them has had on the expression of his thoughts.The authors of this research have found allegorical images of animus in Forough Farrokhzad's poems in coherent places and in different forms such as myths, religious ceremonies, dreams and personal imaginations, etc. Manuscript profile
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        7 - “Water” Archetype and its Function in Myth and Mythical Epic
        Mehdi Sharifian Behzad Atooni
        One  the  important  discussion  of  mythological  criticism  school  is “archetypes”. The archetypes are mental package that give us the all of the human’s mental features since ancient age up to now. The one o More
        One  the  important  discussion  of  mythological  criticism  school  is “archetypes”. The archetypes are mental package that give us the all of the human’s mental features since ancient age up to now. The one of these archetypes that has not already explored extensively is the “water”.This paper has attempted to investigate archetypes and collective unconscious, as well as functions of “water” archetype in myth and mythical epic. Among   these   functions   the   followings   are   considered   the   most considerable in epic: creation of world by “water”, passing mythical hero from water and his birthday, immortality and getting life shield against death by water, cleaning of spiritual of human and objects by water and tie of water and snake in myth. Finally, applying the mythological approach the paper investigates an archetype in Persian epic, Rostam’s Flag, which is similar to dragon. Manuscript profile
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        8 - Investigating the shadow archetype in didar dar shab forough's poem
        mehran alivand kazem dezfoolian
        Shadow is the of Jungian archetypes. Archetype has an ancient and eternal concept. And it considers as the common language among all human beings. Archetype places in collective unconscious. Shadow is the sinner and unprocessed dimension of us that deals whit our defect More
        Shadow is the of Jungian archetypes. Archetype has an ancient and eternal concept. And it considers as the common language among all human beings. Archetype places in collective unconscious. Shadow is the sinner and unprocessed dimension of us that deals whit our defects and incompleteness. Also it is origin of creation and prosperity. Archetypes specially shadow usually appears in dream s or creative work of literature. In some parts of forough's poems we can see the traes of shadow. Chehre ye shegeft (the amazing face) has features of shadow. Forough e this rejected and ruined face that had no clear appearance at night and talked to it, and the shadow took the chance for telling the truth that always been hidden. Manuscript profile
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        9 - Archetypes in the Works of Jean-Marie Gustav Le Clézio: “Desert, the Prospector, the Book of Flights”
        Vahid Nejād Mohammad Marzieh Balighi
        The power of imagination and storytelling is one of the means for expressing man's historical and biological riddles. Since the beginning of human imagination and the moment of literary creation, the relationship between literature and myth has always existed. Documenta More
        The power of imagination and storytelling is one of the means for expressing man's historical and biological riddles. Since the beginning of human imagination and the moment of literary creation, the relationship between literature and myth has always existed. Documentaries and fictional records provide the opportunity to reconstruct historical and mythical phenomena and to analyze psychological concepts. The twentieth-century writers, including Gustave Le Clézio, put forward their ideas in imaginative and realistic contexts; these contexts carry the perceptual and historical features that are collectively achievable. By re-reading some Jungian archetypes, such as persona, anima, animus, sage, shadow, back to oneself and birth, Le Clézio relied a large part of his writing on the collective conscious and myths, and could depict the deepest layers and latent myths of human psyche along with individual and natural elements in the fictional and imaginative world. The process of individuality and the movement of his fictional characters are also formed alongside this fictional world. Hence, the narrative structure of his stories presents a symbolic psychological system that is defined in the context of history and myth. The aim of the present article is to identify this psychological system along with Jungian archetypes in three works of Le Clézio, Desert, The Prospector and The Book of Flights. Manuscript profile
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        10 - The Archetype of Sun in the Poems of Khāghanī and Nezāmī
        محسن ذوالفقاری الهام حدادی
          According to Carl Gustav Jung, the archetypes appear in the collective unconscious through the symbols. The archetype of sun, symbol of power and beauty, has striking presence in Persian poetry. The present article, by studying the poems of Khāghanī and Nezāmī, More
          According to Carl Gustav Jung, the archetypes appear in the collective unconscious through the symbols. The archetype of sun, symbol of power and beauty, has striking presence in Persian poetry. The present article, by studying the poems of Khāghanī and Nezāmī, tries to show that the archetype of sun is rooted in the collective unconscious of these poets.   Manuscript profile
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        11 - Comparative analysis of the role of the collective unconscious of Carl Gustav Jung in the poem (Pain is my other name) by Qaiser Aminpour
        ali keshavarz Ghadimi mostafa maleki
        In the human psyche, the unconscious plays an important role in his behavior and action and ultimately his destiny, and it is the unconscious that drives us forward without knowing it. A set of archetypes, positive and negative complexes, shadow and persona, etc. surpri More
        In the human psyche, the unconscious plays an important role in his behavior and action and ultimately his destiny, and it is the unconscious that drives us forward without knowing it. A set of archetypes, positive and negative complexes, shadow and persona, etc. surprisingly captures the human individual and collective unconscious. The connection of all human behaviors with the unconscious is the case of psychologists. Poetry arises from the unconscious. In the meantime, Jung's theories have paved the way for this path to use these theories to analyze many unconscious behaviors in the poem (Pain is another name for me) by Qaiser Amin Pour.The aim of The present research by descriptive-analytical and library method is to investigate and analyze the role of the collective unconscious in this poem by Qaisar Aminpour. The findings of the research show that among Jung's theories, the collective and personal unconscious have a high frequency in this poem. Manuscript profile
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        12 - The Symbology of Zahhak`s and Afrasyab`s great dream in Shahnameh Ferdowsi
        Masomeh Ramezani
        Abstract   Myth is a narrative which aids people in understanding the current psychological events in life and helps man find ways to improve himself in life`s course. Dream is a natural phenomenon and is a special externalization of the unconscious which is manife More
        Abstract   Myth is a narrative which aids people in understanding the current psychological events in life and helps man find ways to improve himself in life`s course. Dream is a natural phenomenon and is a special externalization of the unconscious which is manifested in the conscious.  Myth and dream have a language that with the knowledge of symbols one can unravel its mysteries.  Based on this research Shahnameh Ferdowsi encompasses dreams containing the collective unconscious myths.Dreams use a symbolic language to warn the dreamer of the events that are likely to happen in the future in order to find a way to prevent their happenings in the conscious world. Zahhak and Afrasyab, two evil kings in Shahnameh both have great dreams that hold collective unconscious archetypal images.  Zahhak’s nightmare predicts his downfall by Feraydun, the hero which is realized by the uprising of Kaveh, the blacksmith and Feraydun by the Sorush’s command imprisons Zahhak in Mount Damavand.  Mysterious dream ofAfrasyab, the vow breaker entails his destruction and death that is after years of combat and bloodshed Kaykhosrow avenges Siavash’s blood and ends the life of this evil vowbreaker.   Manuscript profile
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        13 - The psychological treatment of Zahhak’s character in Shahnameh
        Sepideh Yazdanpanah
        In shahnameh numerous folktales can be found with profound mythical bases.  Zahhak’s story is then an outstanding example of a mythical fiction.  Zahhak with his dark and vicious soul is a monster in Persian mythology.  In this article an effort has More
        In shahnameh numerous folktales can be found with profound mythical bases.  Zahhak’s story is then an outstanding example of a mythical fiction.  Zahhak with his dark and vicious soul is a monster in Persian mythology.  In this article an effort has been made to examine the story and its characters from the psychological perspective based on the theories of Freud and Jung.  Emphasis has been put on such terms as Totem, and Taboo, Key words in Freud’s theory.  Since both the psychological and the mythological criticisms are closely related, in applying the Oedipus complex, rooted in the collective unconscious, and one of the main theories of Jung, the author aims to penetrate into the dark recesses of Zahhak’s character in order to explain his actions, reactions, tensions, and his psychological conflicts to reveal his true identity and dark soul. Manuscript profile