| Using the insights of archetypal psychology, a post-Jungian psychology, this thesis observes the process of soul-making in Shelley's texts. Rather than engaging in a polemical discussion of Shelley's writing, my approach here is more interpretive. I begin in chapter one by establishing the critical framework of the thesis by locating archetypal psychology in relation to Kristevan psychoanalytic theory and deconstructive theory. Chapter two proceeds with an application of archetypal psychology as it is described in the first chapter, with a specific focus on the function of desire and suffering in the soul-making process in Alastor. Chapter three continues to observe soul-making, by examining the mediation of soul in the process of mourning. |
