Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the meaning of life and social satire through the past life trip of unconscious in The Star Rover written by Jack London. In this novel, London reveals his different type of naturalism on the basis of Sigmund Freud’s and Carl Jung’s psychology and psychoanalysis including archetypal phenomena and the collective unconscious. London shows his scathing criticism and acute diagnosis of religion, society, and human nature through the protagonist Darrell Standing’s the various past life trips of unconscious.<BR> Darrell Standing experiences his past life through many unconscious journeys wearing a straightjacket in San Quentin Prison. He uses the methods of mechanical self-hypnosis and subconsciousness to forget his physical sufferings. Therefore, he achieves death in life and becomes a temporary master of time and space to rove among the stars. London reveals not only hereditary hatred, wrath, cruelness, violence but also deep rooted and old distortion, irrationality, and absurdity in human society through the various past life experiences. But he paradoxically emphasizes the significance of human love and kindness which have a great influence on our life and society.
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