Methodology and Application of Critical Principles with text in the Approach to Archetypal Criticism / Jung and the Post-Jungians

The Jung’s criticism is real area of mythological criticism. When

this criticism focuses on the archetypal deep structures that also

describes the "archetypal criticism". In recent decades, with the

growth of postmodern philosophy and with the influential of theorists

such as Lacan about language and unconsciousness, Jung’s criticism

too was affected from post-modern views. Post- Jung criticism which

possesses three approaches and eight main schools was abstracted

from this main approach. Among areas of Post- Jung criticism, one of

the most widely applied theories in the field of literary criticism is the

archetypal criticism that is both inclusive and pluralist. In this

approach, internal and external elements of texts are interpreted

through deductive method.

In this paper, in order to examine the methodological approach of

archetypal criticism, we have explained the quality of critical theory in

the text. Then, with the classification of various texts, we tried a

practical approach to the textual analysis to show how the theory

attempted to extend the area of operation.