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Hero-Ego in Search of Self: A Jungian Reading of Beowulf - Mermier, Guy R (Editor), and White, Judy Anne
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In Hero-Ego in Search of Self , Judy Anne White offers a perceptive explanation for continued interest in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf . Building upon the earlier work of Jeffery Helterman and John Miles Foley, she argues that the sum of all confrontations between hero and monster in Beowulf equals the process of individual psychological development identified by Carl Jung as individuation. Dr. White's study proposes that the hero's struggle is the universal struggle towards self-knowledge - and that Beowulf thus ...

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Hero-Ego in Search of Self: A Jungian Reading of Beowulf 2004, Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

ISBN-13: 9780820431154

Hardcover