Date of Award
Spring 2018
Degree Type
Thesis
Department
Psychology
Director of Thesis
Rhea A. Merck, Ph.D.
First Reader
Ester Richey
Second Reader
Ester Richey
Abstract
The premise of this thesis is to explore the concepts of Carl Jung’s collective unconscious and archetypes using myths from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In exploring the archetypes of the Animus, the Mother, the Hero, the Child, the Trickster, and Rebirth through these myths, I aim to demonstrate their relevance to modern psychology by directly connecting them to related psychopathologies as described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Behavioral and Mental Disorders V. Through this, the validity of the concept of the collective unconscious will be demonstrated in how the enduring archetypes of stories that are over two thousand years old are still psychologically relevant and present in literature and story-telling today.
First Page
1
Last Page
63
Recommended Citation
Covington, Lindsay, "Applying Jung's Archetypes and Theory of the Collective Unconscious to Ovid's Metamorphoses" (2018). Senior Theses. 251.
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/senior_theses/251
Rights
© 2018, Lindsay Covington
Included in
Applied Behavior Analysis Commons, Classical Literature and Philology Commons, Personality and Social Contexts Commons, Poetry Commons, Theory and Philosophy Commons