A Psychoanalysis of Female Characters in the Novels Heat and Dust and Inside the Haveli : Function of Mother Archetype in the Characters of the Narrator and Geeta

Deepali Jaiswal

doi:10.24113/ijellh.v9i2.10907

Abstract

The psychoanalysts enhance our understanding of our consciousness, the self and self-identity. Psychoanalytic theory plays an important role in the comprehension of the fundamental condition of selfhood. The self is not an unified entity in psychoanalytical terms. Human subject emerges as an outcrop of the unconscious desire. After Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, a swiss psychologist is considered as an eminent contributor to psychoanalysis who theorized the concept of collective unconscious. The purpose of my study is to find out the presence of the collective unconscious and to analyse two female characters, The Narrator , from the novel Heat and Dust and Geeta from Inside the Haveli with the help of Jung's theory of collective unconscious and mother archetype. In this research paper several theoretical concepts of Carl Jung are used to analyse the female characters. Jung’s theories are applied during the analysis process such as personal conscious, collective conscious and archetypes. I would use qualitative method for the analysis of the characters of the Narrator and Geeta. I would use important dialogues and incidents for the data collection for the analysis of the characters. The psychoanalytic study of the Narrator and Geeta shows that they both have collective unconscious. I would study the function of mother archetype in the life of the Narrator and Geeta

Highlights

According to Jung, the human psyche has two parts --The personal conscious and collective unconscious
Conclusion it is clear that there is an intrinsic duality to the archetypal representation of the mother archetype
Carl Jung’s view that the archetype originates in the fantasies of individuals is found true in the case of the Narrator in the novel Heat and Dust. It is her intense imagination which gets extremely motivated from dual mother archetype function

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Introduction

According to Jung, the human psyche has two parts --The personal conscious and collective unconscious. The collective unconscious is a layer which does not owe to personal experiences. It cannot be distinguished as personal acquisition. The content of collective conscious owes to those experiences that have been forgotten and repressed with time. One does not acquire these experiences individually rather stores them by heredity These experiences have never been conscious to him and rest in the deep layer of collective unconscious. Our immediate conscious is of personal nature In addition to this empirical psyche, there is a second sphere of collective unconscious which is collective, impersonal, and identical in all human beings. The content of the second layer comes out of the depth into personal conscious only in the moments of crisis and horror

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