Journal Article

The Hero's Journey: A Jungian Analysis of a Documentary Film Murderball

حنفي، إيمان عدوي أحمد

2018

Overview

Murderball (2005) is an American documentary film about physically disabled athletes who challenge disability and play wheelchair rugby. The film reveals how the representation of characters with disabilities deviates from stereotypical and past negative identification of disabled characters. In this context, the study is an attempt to analyze the emergence of the positive disabled archetype in the light of Carl Jung's theory of the collective unconscious. The use of archetypes in understanding the human condition, arguably made famous by C.G. Jung who considers the archetypes as contents of the collective unconscious, a deep layer of psyche not derived from personal experience. The archetype is changed when it becomes conscious and is perceived; it becomes colored by the person in whose consciousness it appears. According to Jung, it is absolutely necessary for a person to realize the collective unconscious and to integrate its contents into his consciousness before a person can complete the journey to \"self-actualization.\" In his journey, the heroes confront various archetypes, the chief among them, \"the Shadow\", \"he Wise Old Man\", and \"the Mother.\" These three figures are some of those typical stages in the journey of the hero. The ultimate goal of this process is a whole, fully integrated personality that maintains a careful balance between the conscious and the unconscious.

• Publisher: جامعة عين شمس - كلية البنات للآداب والعلوم والتربية
• Subject: الأفلام الوثائقية / التحليل النفسي / السينما الأمريكية / ذوو الإعاقة / فيلم كرة القتل / يونج، كارل