Journal of Critical Applied Linguistics Studies

en The Mother-Complex & Mother-Archetype in Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian: A Psychoanalytical Reading تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research <div style="text-align: justify;">The late twentieth century has seen an upsurge of Gothic studies in literature. Ellen Mores is a feminist who has coined the term Female Gothic in order to distinguish between male authors and female authors of Gothic and their differences. This has created much controversy over such a category and the issue that Ann Radcliffe is a proto-feminist. Some critics disagree and believe that she is mostly a misogynist. The aim of this paper is to use Jungian archetypal psychoanalysis and analyze Radcliffe’s The Italian. Jungian psychology investigates the Parental roots in archetypal psychoanalysis and their relationship to the child. According to Jung unconscious is the realm of the mother, the unknown, the world of instincts. Consciousness is the world of father, the known and familiar, the world of knowledge and reason. The Italian is filled with symbolism and symbolic elements. The mother-daughter relationship, both rivalry and friendship, is central to the novel. The Novel’s heroine starts a journey to find her mother because of her third type of mother-complex which is “identity with mother”. In this type of mother complex, the daughter needs a mother to look up to and identify with to be able to marry. In The Italian, an absentee mother creates a lack and sends forth the daughter on an unconscious journey to find her mother. In the end while Radcliffean heroine in The Italian is looking unconsciously for her mother and therefore the lost Matriarchy, she consciously accepts an ideal Patriarchy.</div> Psychoanalysis, Jung, Gothic Novel, Archetype, Mother, Journey, Unconscious 183 202 http://cals.gonbad.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-49-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Fatemeh Sadat Yahyapoor f.yahyapoor@urmia.ac.ir 1003194753284600544 0009-0002-4210-7626 Yes Fatemeh Sadat Yahyapoor (Corresponding Author), Assistant Professor, English Language Department, Faculty of Humanities, Uremia University, Iran. Email: f.yahyapoor@urmia.ac.ir