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Journal Article
Mental Patterns in Doris Lessing's Briefing for a Descent into Hell
2024
Overview
Jung's analytical psychology is an esoteric school of thought that has challenged many postulates in the field of psychology. Delving deep in the hidden dimensions of our psychoid processes, Jung's analytical model discusses highly controversial issues related to our epistemological outlook and ontological being. It studies how man's being is shaped by the forces of the unconscious level, and by the symbols, archetypes, and archetypal ideas that lurk in the two layers of the unconscious - the personal and the collective unconscious. The present study aims to offer a reading of Lessing's Briefing for a Descent into Hell in the light of Jung's analytical model. Through an analytic and a psychological reading of the text that makes use of the Jungian concept of the archetype, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation, the study seeks to recontextualize the mechanisms through which identity is shaped, and to explore how psychological suffering and the boundaries of the self affect our process of identification. It also attempts to point out how levels of conflict can cause man's psychological disintegration, and to stress the fact that the psychic is nothing but the mental patterns that are in function inside the human mind. The psychological reading of the text refers, moreover, to the essentiality of having a multi-dimensional psychological profiling if a therapist is to provide a real treatment for the patient. The study finally stresses that it is not one universal approach that is to be applied to different psychological cases, but rather a multiplicity of various psychological approaches that can accommodate different epistemological and ontological orientations that are inseparable from the individual's mental and psychological outlook.
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جامعة القاهرة - فرع الخرطوم - كلية الآداب
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