A Jungian Analysis of Coraline
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The novella Coraline follows a young girl as she rescues her parents from an alternate reality. In his short story, author Neil Gaiman covers scarcely one week of Coraline’s life. Still, the descriptions of Coraline’s experiences and thoughts can engage Carl Jung’s psychological theories of personality structure and individuation. In particular, I will analyze how Coraline’s character illustrates Jung’s concepts of the personal unconscious, the collective unconscious, and archetypes.
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