Hamlet - Collective Unconscious in Hamlet

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... haracter as totally evil; rather, is just a stain on his personality. The character doesn't feel good about the action; rather, he feels guilty, but is drawn into a web of deceit through his initial lie concerning the murder, "O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; it hath the primal eldest curse upon't a brothers murder! Pray can I not, though inclination be as sharp as will." (Act 3 Scene 3 line 39-42)

Syzygy is the next archetype that is seen in the play. Syzygy is when both the anima and animus archetypes are present; this is also known as a "soul-image". The archetypal figure of the soul-image always stands for the complementary or contrasexual part of the psyche. This reflects our personal relations and individual experience of the contrasexual, as in how in touch we are with the opposite sex. The anima archetype is seen in the character Laertes, "And so I have a noble father lost; a sister driven into desp'rate terms, whose worth, if praise may go back again, stood challenger on mount of all the age for her perfections. Bu ...

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