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چکیده مقاله

Today, linguists believe in three main functions of language: (1) Practical use of language which is used in communication, mass media, every day conversations, etc. (2) Persuasive use of language which is mainly used to persuade the listener or reader to do/accept what the speaker wants him to, and is used in battlefields, sermons, propaganda, etc. (3) Poetic function, in which the words are multidimensional and obscure. The myths and their stories are among the third group of use of language. The words of the myths have always been obscure and mysterious so that even Hermes, the God of messaging, could not decode them well. According to Jung, the myths are incarnation of the inner unconscious needs of human. He called these internal needs “archetype” which, according to him, existed in primitive human being and has been transferred to the next generations. The present paper investigated one of these archetypes, namely anima, in Seyed Ali Salehi’s “Letters to Rira”. The paper proved that the reason of the disintegration of the narrator of these poems/letters is being separated from his anima, which is imagined in the form of "Rira" in this poem.