Date of Award
1978
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department
Graduate School
First Advisor
Louis Leiter
First Committee Member
Diane M. Borden
Abstract
The following psychological interpretation of Shakespeare's The Tempest is unique to articles on the same subject which have appeared in literary journals because it applies a purely Jungian reading to the characters in the play. Here each character is shown to represent one of the archetypes which Jung described in his book Archetypes ~ the Collective Unconscious. In giving the play a psychological interpretation, the action must be seen to occur inside Prospera's own unconscious mind. He is experiencing a psychic transformation or what Jung called the individuation process, where a person becomes "a separate, indivisible unity or whole" and where the conscious and unconscious are united.
Pages
43
Recommended Citation
Smith, Tana. (1978). A Jungian interpretation of The Tempest. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/1989
