Research Catalog

Title

Thomas Hardy's poetry : a Jungian perspective / Byunghwa Joh.

Author

Joh, Byunghwa, 1962-

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, [2002], ©2002.

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Description

xii, 131 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Thomas Hardy's psyche can be explained effectively by the relationship of the child with its mother, suggesting that he was dominated throughout his life by the mother archetype. His pessimistic vision can be understood in terms of his strong attachment to his early life and subsequent disillusionment with the way in which the world operates. This dominant archetype seems to have impeded the activation of the anima, the rival archetype of the mother, putting his relationships with women into trouble.
• The hostility Hardy displays toward the Prime Cause also tells us that the strong influence of the mother led to his failure to cultivate a harmonious relationship with the Self, the psychological equivalent to God. This book explores psychological grounds on which some differently categorized groups of Hardy's poems were produced."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The modernist revolution in world literature ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Modernist revolution in world literature ; v. 1.

Subjects

• Psychoanalysis and literature > England > History > 20th century
• Psychology in literature
• Poetry > Psychological aspects
• Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 > Knowledge > Psychology
• Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 > Poetic works
• Jung, C. G (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961 > Views on literature
• Modernism (Literature) > England

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-127).

Contents

1. The Mother Archetype and Hardy's Early Years. Theoretical Backgrounds: The Mother Archetype. The Pre-Conscious World and Hardy's Early Years. Hometown. Christianity -- 2. The Terrible Mother and Hardy's Tragic Vision. Theoretical Backgrounds: The Terrible Mother. Disillusionment and Poems of Irony. Philosophical Poems -- 3. The Anima and Hardy's Love Poems. Theoretical Backgrounds: The Anima as the Rival against the Mother. Love Poems -- 4. The Conclusion: Hardy and the World Beyond. Theoretical Backgrounds: The Self. Hardy and the Transcendental Existence.

ISBN

0820451673 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00062966

OCLC

• ocm44972218
• SCSB-4262849

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries