woman-defined identity: analysis of selected poems of adrienne rich

the current thesis is composed in five chapters in the following fashion: chapter two encompasses the applied framework of the project in details; the methodology of carl gustav jung to explain the process of individuation, the major archetypes and their attributes and his techniques to assess the mind’s strata are all explained. moreover, the austrian psychoanalysts, heinz kohut’s models of analysis are discussed to the needed extent. due to the inaccessibility of the poet’s complete writings and the lack of research laboratories, it would be done in a fairly relative scale though. chapter three is specified to the description of the mythical world of the poet’s works. the parallel models fitting jung’s archetypes are extracted and clearly explained. besides, a close look is cast upon the kohutian selfobjects and their effective role in the formation of a narcissistic self. these patterns make up the foundation stone to extend the cultural and psychological theories. chapter four entails a thorough and multi-dimensional analysis of the paradigms detected with the help of diverse theorists of post-modernism and feminism and also kohut’s practices. finally in the fifth chapter, the thesis is closed with the investigation of the results. nonetheless, the findings open a vaster horizon of contemplation to the reader. further questions that might link the readers’ uptakes to a higher level of awareness and mean to spice up the craving for more knowledge are proposed, as well.