Title: Introduction: Beyond Traditional Jungian Literary Criticism
Abstract: The purpose of this book is to bring together the psychology of CG. Jung and modern theories of literary representation in an era of poststructuralist literary criticism. My aim is to initiate the process of absorbing Jungian theory into modern critical discourses such as deconstruction, feminism, postmodern spirituality, reader-response and postcolonialism in ways that have been achieved with great perspicacity and thoroughness for the theories of Sigmund Freud. One of the most significant gifts of post-structuralist practice to literary theories is the possibility of reversing and renegotiating the customary power relationship between the theory and the body of material it seeks to explain. Both Freud and Jung assumed that their theories could give an adequate account of the psychological dynamics of literary production and consumption: theory had priority over literature and indeed such a superiority was a guarantee of the status of the theory. The poststructuralist dissection of the authoritative claims of discourses has enabled a critical experimentation in which conventional priorities are swapped to allow literature to be read as illuminating, and even contesting, the precepts of Freudian theory.
Publication Year: 1999
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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