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Where the shadows lie : a Jungian interpretation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

By: Material type: TextTextWilmette, IL Chiron Publications c2009Description: xxi, 210p.; bibliog. notes; bibliog.; indexContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781888602456
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Contents:
1 Faery or the collective unconscious. 2 The archetype of consciousness: the hobbits. 3 The journey out: archetypes of transformation. 4 The trickster. 5 The hero. 6 The anima. 7 The love story: Eowyn and Faramir. 8 The old king. 9 The spirit. 10 The one ring and the three elven rings. 11 The collective shadow. 12 The end of an age. 13 Anthropos: the cosmic man. 14 The renewal of the shire
Abstract: 'Skogemann goes through the whole of Tolkien's work--characters, landscapes, and events--to determine what kind of archetypes and basic situations from the collective unconscious are appearing. And she does it with enormous zest.'
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Orig. pub. as En Jungiansk Fortolkning af Tolkiens Ringenes Herre, c2004, Forlaget Athene.

1 Faery or the collective unconscious. 2 The archetype of consciousness: the hobbits. 3 The journey out: archetypes of transformation. 4 The trickster. 5 The hero. 6 The anima. 7 The love story: Eowyn and Faramir. 8 The old king. 9 The spirit. 10 The one ring and the three elven rings. 11 The collective shadow. 12 The end of an age. 13 Anthropos: the cosmic man. 14 The renewal of the shire

'Skogemann goes through the whole of Tolkien's work--characters, landscapes, and events--to determine what kind of archetypes and basic situations from the collective unconscious are appearing. And she does it with enormous zest.'

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