The Shadow Archetype and Domestic Space in Women's Short Stories of the Late Nineteenth Century
Keywords:
archetype, shadow, Female gothic, individuation process, female frustration.
Abstract
This essay analyzes how the Shadow Archetype in Jungian Psychology is represented in the women’s literature belonging to the female gothic. Consciously or unconsciously, the literary women of a specific period (the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth Century) used this Jungian archetype, in its different phases, to dissolve their repressions and fears. The Shadow Aspect becomes a projection of their sorrow and frustration. Women start their individuation process with their ghost tales, as it is shown in the stories analyzed here: The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Werewolf (1890) by Clemence Housman.Downloads
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Published
2013-01-08
How to Cite
Andrada de Gregorio N. (2013). The Shadow Archetype and Domestic Space in Women’s Short Stories of the Late Nineteenth Century. Investigaciones Feministas (Feminist Research), 3, 141-154. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_INFE.2012.v3.41142
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