Woof and Jung: Collective Unconscious Represented in Fictions

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  • ウルフとユング：小説に描出される「集合的無意識」

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This paper aims to clarify some significant similarities in terms of the notion of unconsciousness between Virginia Woolf and Carl Jung. Previous psychoanalytic approaches to Woolf's works have applied Freud's theory, paying little attention to what Jung's collective unconscious and the description of mind in Woolf's novels have much in common. In fact, Woolf attempted to embody the unconscious sphere in her later works and her idea of the unconscious seems to be identical to Jung's theory, though the writer had never met Jung or read his works. Thus in this paper, in order to clarify how the idea of unconsciousness is shared by Woolf and Jung, I shall investigate Woolf's creative intention noted in her diaries and essays and then analyse her literary texts: two short stories and The Waves (1931). Also by referring to what Jung argues about the relation between artists and art works, I shall elucidate Woolf's creative processes in which she managed to describe the intangible sphere underneath consciousness. It is hoped that my analysis of some of the passages representing collective unconscious will shed a new light on Woolf as a modernist novelist.

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  • JAILA Journal

    JAILA Journal 4 (0), 50-61, 2018

    The Japan Association of International Liberal Arts

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