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Carl Jung’s archetypes in Malayalam film: a case study on the film ‘Urumi’

Movies are the visual- auditory symbolic narrative that explains the living reality of people. Films employ Carl Jung’s concept of archetypes-prototypical characters.This research provides an insight about the theory of archetype based on the assumption that archetypes resides deep inside human mind...

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Main Authors: Varghese, Sona, Balasubramanian, Arumugam
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2017
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P Philology. Linguistics
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/20901/1/shsconf_icome2017%201%209.pdf
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http://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20173300018
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spelling my.uum.repo.209012017-02-08T08:36:29Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/20901/ Carl Jung’s archetypes in Malayalam film: a case study on the film ‘Urumi’ Varghese, Sona Balasubramanian, Arumugam P Philology. Linguistics Movies are the visual- auditory symbolic narrative that explains the living reality of people. Films employ Carl Jung’s concept of archetypes-prototypical characters.This research provides an insight about the theory of archetype based on the assumption that archetypes resides deep inside human mind.The researcher proposes that the Malayalam film industry in India showcases the western concept of archetype using the movie Urumi as a case study. For this study, different clips are taken from the movie to represent six essential archetypes, namely, Hero, Anima, Animus, Mentor (sage), Shadow, and Trickster.The psychoanalysis of this movie carried out in this paper provides evidence for the existence of all six essential archetypes identified by Carl Jung. Thus this article will be a fruitful resource for future research in the field of psychoanalysis of movies. 2017 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc4_by http://repo.uum.edu.my/20901/1/shsconf_icome2017%201%209.pdf Varghese, Sona and Balasubramanian, Arumugam (2017) Carl Jung’s archetypes in Malayalam film: a case study on the film ‘Urumi’. In: International Conference on Communication and Media: An International Communication Association Regional Conference (i-COME’16), 18th - 20th September 2016, Istana Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. http://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20173300018 doi:10.1051/shsconf/20173300018
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topic P Philology. Linguistics
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Varghese, Sona
Balasubramanian, Arumugam
Carl Jung’s archetypes in Malayalam film: a case study on the film ‘Urumi’
description Movies are the visual- auditory symbolic narrative that explains the living reality of people. Films employ Carl Jung’s concept of archetypes-prototypical characters.This research provides an insight about the theory of archetype based on the assumption that archetypes resides deep inside human mind.The researcher proposes that the Malayalam film industry in India showcases the western concept of archetype using the movie Urumi as a case study. For this study, different clips are taken from the movie to represent six essential archetypes, namely, Hero, Anima, Animus, Mentor (sage), Shadow, and Trickster.The psychoanalysis of this movie carried out in this paper provides evidence for the existence of all six essential archetypes identified by Carl Jung. Thus this article will be a fruitful resource for future research in the field of psychoanalysis of movies.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Varghese, Sona
Balasubramanian, Arumugam
author_facet Varghese, Sona
Balasubramanian, Arumugam
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title Carl Jung’s archetypes in Malayalam film: a case study on the film ‘Urumi’
title_short Carl Jung’s archetypes in Malayalam film: a case study on the film ‘Urumi’
title_full Carl Jung’s archetypes in Malayalam film: a case study on the film ‘Urumi’
title_fullStr Carl Jung’s archetypes in Malayalam film: a case study on the film ‘Urumi’
title_full_unstemmed Carl Jung’s archetypes in Malayalam film: a case study on the film ‘Urumi’
title_sort carl jung’s archetypes in malayalam film: a case study on the film ‘urumi’
publishDate 2017
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/20901/1/shsconf_icome2017%201%209.pdf
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http://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20173300018
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