Archetypes and the process of individuation: A Jungian reading of Pamuk's the New Life and Joyce's a portrait of the artist as a young man

Carl Gustav Jung, the founder of analytical psychology, calls the psychological development of human beings the individuation process: a journey towards wholeness and the synthesis of opposites. Jung's individuation process takes place through the manifestation and acceptance of archetypes of a universal collective unconscious found in all humans. Orhan Pamuk's postmodern novel The New Life, published in 1994, is about the journey of Osman, a university student. Osman's journey begins with the influence of the book he is reading. Similarly, Joyce's modern work A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, published in 1916, chronicles Stephen Dedalus' journey from childhood to adulthood. This thesis analyzes the individuation processes of both characters and their experiences with the archetypes of "anima", "shadow", "child", "persona" and "self" by juxtaposing the journey of Osman and Stephen within the framework of Carl Gustav Jung's analytical psychology.