نویسندگان

چکیده مقاله

Archetypes are known as the contents of mankind's collective unconscious, first introduced theoretically by the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. He believed that archetypes are predetermined forms shared by all the various human tribes, and one of the most significant among these forms is anima. Nowadays, these epitomic forms are addressed in terms of mythological and archetypal criticism on works of literature. The analysis of anima in Mohammad Saeed Mirzaei's sonnets aims at demonstrating the feminine half of the psyche as portrayed in these poems and the symbols used. The research at hand once again lays bare the link between literature and psychology in contemporary sonnets, thus unveiling the anima archetype and its comprising symbols in poetry. The outcome attained through a study conducted with an inductive approach discovered that the representation of anima archetypes in Mirzaei's sonnets can be categorized into four major groups, indicating the frequencies of semantics, nature, objects, and numbers, respectively. The representation of anima mostly occurred via abstract concepts, while nature and its comprising elements had the least frequency, followed by objects and numbers at the bottom, reflecting the ideological focus of the poet on semantical and mental dimension of the anima.