Document Type : Original Article

Author

• Elnaz Khojaste Zonoozi

Assistant Professor, Department of Persian language and literature, Faculty of literature, Alzahra University,

Abstract

Carl Gustav Jung, the founder of the analytical psychology, is one of the structuralism psychologists whose most famous term in his theory is called "Archetype". An archetype is an eternal image of inherited ideas in the collective unconscious mind, which is as old as human history. Among the types of archetypes in his theory, Jung considers the "self" to be the most important because it is the central core of personality and leads to an important factor called the "individuation process". Using the analytical descriptive method, this research analyzes the characteristics of the self in four epistles of Suhrawardi called The chant of Gabriel's wing, In the state of childhood, epistle of the birds and Red Intellect. According to the studies, it seems that the "self" in these epistles is a homodiegetic narrator and is represented in the form of a self as a child and a self as a bird, which goes through many ups and downs to reach personal and spiritual excellence and a level of individualization process. Self in Sohrawardi's works invite the audience to a range of elevation and the author in different levels of personality in the individuation of deep construction of the text.

Keywords

• Jung
• Archetype
• Self
• Suhrawardi's epistles

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