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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2020  
         
  Article:   THE JUNGIAN ARCHETYPES AND THE CONFLICT WITH THE DOUBLE SELF IN THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE / ARHETIPURILE JUNGIENE ȘI CONFLICTUL CU SINELE DUBLU ÎN STRANIUL CAZ AL DOCTORULUI JEKYLL ȘI AL DOMNULUI HYDE.

Authors:  ELENA-DANIELA SANDU.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/subbphilo.2020.3.21
Published Online: 2020-09-30
Published Print: 2020-09-30
pp. 285-294
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The Jungian Archetypes and the Conflict with the Double Self in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The current paper analyzes Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from a psychoanalytical perspective. The analysis presents the Jungian perspective of collective unconscious that proposes the existence of several archetypes that inhabit the mind of every human as a set of repeating patterns. The focus of the paper is put on the Archetypes of Shadow, Ego and Persona that appear in the psyche of the protagonist, Dr. Jekyll. The paper explains the manifestation of the schizoid personality in Dr. Jekyll’s psyche. Jekyll’s relationship with his double-self is presented as the main cause of Dr. Jekyll’s failure to individuate and unify all the Archetypes of his psyche.

Keywords: archetype, unconscious, double, shadow, ego, persona, individuation, Victorian
 
         
     
         
         
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