Individuation in The Seventh Day of Creation: A Jungian Analysis

Jung's individuation process is associated with the shadow, anima, self, sage, and persona archetypes, during which protagonist achieves self-discovery self- awareness. Abdel Khaliq Al-Rikabi’s The Seventh Day of Creation one most popular Arabic novels in twentieth century has postmodern techniques including polyphony time travel to present two main distinct narratives. If these intertwined narratives are considered separately, can detect therein archetypes informing idea individuation. Most notably, function advancing author's goal, a kind creation novel, could be recognized novel’s first narrative, namely, Kitab Al-Kotob (Sirah Al-Zatiyeh). psychological analysis this narrative shows that author encounters unconscious archetypal elements such as sage; toward end individuation, he becomes aware how form content created. story Sirah Al-Zatiyeh presents himself, undergoes order collect manuscripts Rawouq. In three-step process, sets out on symbolic journey know himself achieve self-discovery, after encountering shadow (Badr poet), anima (Warqa), sage (Shabib)..