| Title: | Persona and Extraverted Sensation Type in John Fowles’s The Magus |
| Author: | Bianca Foghel |
| Publication: | Philologica Jassyensia, X (1 supl.), p. 229-233 |
| p-ISSN: | 1841-5377 |
| e-ISSN: | 2247-8353 |
| Publisher: | Institutul de Filologie Română „A. Philippide” |
| Place: | Iaşi |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | The present paper aims to discuss the typological portrait of the main protagonist in The Magus in relation to the persona archetype, focusing on Jungian analytical psychology in terms of theoretical background. The purpose is to explore the narrative interplay at character level between the dominant psychological function, which in my contention corresponds to the extraverted sensation psychological type, as outlined by Carl Jung, and the persona archetype. I shall also analyse how, after having divested himself of the persona of the poet and artist, which enabled him to see the world through idealizing metaphors, the character-narrator of The Magus is now left with a limited means of perceiving and coping with reality, namely that of the physical senses. Nicholas Urfe can only grasp and internalize reality if it is reinforced by materialization since it is only thorough the senses that he can relate to the outer world, to otherness and the self. |
| Key words: | analytical psychology, extraverted type, Carl Jung, John Fowles, The Magus |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
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