Illustrating psychology in fiction I've just read The…
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Illustrating psychology in fiction
I've just read The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for the first time. What I found most interesting is the psychological commentary. The final passage from Dr Jekyll is extraordinary for its insights - I'm no psychologist, but I thought it did an excellent job of illustrating the nature of the Shadow in Carl Jung's work. The book answers the question: *What if, instead of integrating the Shadow, we completely separated it? How would it look, think, behave?* And yet, RLS wrote it 25 years before Jung first wrote about the psychological concept.
**So my question is, which books do you think best illustrate certain psychological states or phenomena?**
As a side note, I enjoyed the book more than I expected - the novella format made it more streamline than a lot of novels of the time, and once I got used to semi-colons being used to indicate adjacent thoughts rather than separate clauses, the prose rolled along just fine.
IMO had it been written today for the commercial markets, the twist/reveal would have been left to the end and as the climactic moment. But RLS puts it only about 60% of the way through and dedicates most of the rest to reflections on the duality of man. Great choice!
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I've just read The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for the first time. What I found most interesting is the psychological commentary. The final passage from Dr Jekyll is extraordinary for its insights - I'm no psychologist, but I thought it did an excellent job of illustrating the nature of the Shadow in Carl Jung's work. The book answers the question: *What if, instead of integrating the Shadow, we completely separated it? How would it look, think, behave?* And yet, RLS wrote it 25 years before Jung first wrote about the psychological concept.
**So my question is, which books do you think best illustrate certain psychological states or phenomena?**
As a side note, I enjoyed the book more than I expected - the novella format made it more streamline than a lot of novels of the time, and once I got used to semi-colons being used to indicate adjacent thoughts rather than separate clauses, the prose rolled along just fine.
IMO had it been written today for the commercial markets, the twist/reveal would have been left to the end and as the climactic moment. But RLS puts it only about 60% of the way through and dedicates most of the rest to reflections on the duality of man. Great choice!
#entertainment
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