A Psychological Interpretation Of The Golden Ass Of Apuleius by Marie-Louise von Franz
A Jungian reading of the Roman novel treats the protagonist’s literal metamorphosis into a donkey as an extended symbolic drama of psychic regression, confrontation with instinctual material, and eventual individuation; episodic encounters with witches, thieves, and initiatory rites are interpreted as archetypal figures and stages in the soul’s purification and reintegration. The narrative’s recurring motifs — transformation, captivity, humiliation, and finally deliverance through the goddess — are read as psychological processes in which the persona is stripped away, the shadow and anima are met, and a rebirth into a higher, religiously framed wholeness occurs. Attention is paid to alchemical and mythic parallels, dream logic, and the ritual structure that frames the heroine/god-image’s salvific role, arguing that the tale functions as a symbolic map of inner development rather than merely a comic adventure.
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