Lord of the rings in light of the Jungian archetypes

Pages: 99-101
Ameek Kaur1 and Nayanika Singh2 (Bhavan Vidyalaya Chandigarh and Department of Psychology, Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Administration1 and Sector 26, Govt. of Punjab, Chandigar2)

“In addition to our immediate personal conscious…there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals and is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes” (Jung, The Collective Unconscious). The Collective Unconscious is a term that reflects upon the Doctrine of Innatism that each person is born with a dominant pre-existent image that only grows, solidifies, and gains consciousness in the environment that is offered to it. However, these images or archetypes that humans are born with are only actualized when they interact with the real world and grow along with the sociological manifestations. Against this backdrop, this paper aims to highlight and analyze how the characters from the fantasy fiction novel, The Lord of The Rings are based on the Jungian Archetypes and how at the end each of these characters falls into place vis a vis the archetypal dominance found in them.