THE INDIVIDUATED HOBBIT - JUNG, TOLKIEN AND THE ARCHETYPES OF MIDDLE-EARTH

Timothy R. O'Neill

T "This remarkable book provides a provocative and highly original explanation of the puzzle by establishing an extensive and striking correlation between Carl Jung's theory of the collective unconscious and Tolkien's mythology for Middle-Earth. O'Neill points out case after case of how the themes and characters of The Lord of the Rings closely parallel Jung's archetypes and demonstrates how the entire narrative can be read in Jungian terms as the central human struggle for what Jung called individualtion-the healthy realization of the self."

Hardcover, 200 pages, published by Thames and Hudson (1979)

Condition: Fair