Jungian Literary Criticism

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Summary: great collection of essays on archetypal literature/criticis
Review: Containing thirty-two essays by the greatest archetypal critics, this is an excellent introduction to the possibilities of seeing literature in a new way: as directly related to the individual psyche. This view of literature and its human function reminds us of literature's roots in myth and, before that, religion itself. Also, it relates literature to the most important scientific efforts of the past two decades, the exponentially increasing understanding of the sub-conscious strata--including all genetic coding--of our human nature