Creating a Psychological Portrait of a Postmodern Character in English Literary Text

Abstract

elements of Jungian Analytical Psychology, namely, the Psychology of Shadow. The paper highlights some theoretical assumptions of the G. C. Jung's concept of Psychology of the Unconsciousness, according to which psyche is not only our consciousness but show to others; Ego, individual consciousness, that is "I", self-identity, self-esteem; Shadow, individual unconsciousness, usually comprises religious believes, myths and magic. It is proved that archetypes are recognisable in outer behaviours, especially those that archetypes also adhere to the structure of human psyche itself and are observable in relation to inner or psychic life, revealing historically changeable, they directly depend on the writing traditions, and ideas present in a given ideological literary period as where a character generates the sense of absurdity and nonsense, loneliness and total contradictions. It is proved that a postmodern is isolated in a dynamic, highly technological postmodern society. Keywords 1. Introduction. The interrelation between Poet ics and Psychology comprises an important feature of the contemporary literary studies in general and postmodern Poetics in particular. Often and often

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