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Isn't Hyde actually Shadow archetype from Jungian psychology?
by popee 9y ago
Isn't Hyde actually Shadow archetype from Jungian psychology?
- adam-a 9y agoCarl Jung was 11 when the book was published, so perhaps it's the other way around?
- V-2 9y agoArchetypes predate Jung, that's sort of the idea. He didn't invent them, only discovered and classified them.
- popee 9y agoI didn't say that book is based on Jung, just that Hyde is maybe personification of Shadow archetype. What's your opinion, could that be true?
- philee 9y agoI would think so. A direct comparison has been written about in literature long after both the story/concept were introduced [1]: 'A man who is possessed by his shadow is always standing in his own light and falling into his own traps ... living below his own level': hence, in terms of the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 'it must be Jekyll, the conscious personality, who integrates the shadow ... and not vice versa. Otherwise the conscious becomes the slave of the autonomous shadow'. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology)