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2008; AOSIS; Volume: 29; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.4102/lit.v29i3.131
ISSN2219-8237
Autores Tópico(s)Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
ResumoThe magnetism of the oceanThis article compares the use of oceanic symbolism in the poetry of Karin Boye, Ingrid Jonker and Sylvia Plath. Freud’s “oceanic feeling” is described and contrasted with Jung’s theory of the “great mother”. According to Jung, the “great mother” is the unconscious which is represented by water. All these elements are discussed in the poems and compared to each other in order to gain a better understanding of the poetry. Although “death” (drowning) in the ocean appears to point to new life, it ends in unification with the archetypal mother. This liberates the poets symbolically, but not physically.
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