An Exploration of the Dreams of Harry Potter and the Implications of the Jungian Mythical Hero & Collective Unconscious Öffentlichkeit
Wang, Emily Yeng-Shu (2012)
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Abstract
Abstract
An Exploration of the Dreams of Harry Potter and the Implications
of the Jungian
Mythical Hero and Collective Unconscious
A thorough exploration of the hero as a dreamer in Harry
Potter through the
psychoanalytic lenses of Freud and Jung can provide an
interpretation of the series as a
literary manifestation of our collective unconscious. In his short
book, On Dreams,
Sigmund Freud defines three types of dreams: the intelligible,
mundane dream, the
intelligible, "bewildering" dream, and the unintelligible dream
"which seem
disconnected, confused, and meaningless" (Freud). Each of these
types dreams
are a result of a certain state of the unconscious and indicate
important aspects of the
person's psyche. Harry Potter, in fact, experiences dreams in all
three categories. Carl
Jung, a student of Freud's, had very different, opposing views of
dreams. He believed
dreams to be a product of the unconscious, like Freud, but did not
believe them to be the
result of internal stimuli. Jung claimed that every dream contains
fundamental meaning.
Jung found that dreams are rationalizations of ourselves and our
unconscious.
Additionally, Jung stated that dreams hearken back to our
collective unconscious with
recurring archetypes and figures. Harry Potter also experiences
dreams that contain
significant and notable archetypes which make him a mythical,
archetypal hero.
Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
Introduction
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The Meteoric Rise of Harry Potter
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Freud and Jung and other Dream
Theories
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The Dreams of Harry Potter
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Dream Vision
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Dreams in Limbo
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The Everyday Dreams of Harry Potter
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Motorcycles
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The Sorting Hat
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Unreachable Goals
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Trapped
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The Ungraspable
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The Riddle House
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False Dreams
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Death of Sirius
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Mythical Heroism in the Dreams of
Harry Potter
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Dreams in Contemporary Young Adult
Fiction and the Collective Unconscious .............. 41
Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Appendices
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Appendix A: The Hero as a Savior and
the Christian Controversy with Harry Potter . 52
Appendix B: The Collective
Unconscious as Demonstrated In Popular Literature and
Media
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