The Heroine’s Journey towards Wholeness as seen in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing

IF 0.6 Q3 LINGUISTICS Mental Lexicon Pub Date : 2021-03-08 DOI:10.22146/LEXICON.V7I1.64590

Hendarti Azizah Ayuningtyas, R. Jatmiko

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This study discusses the psychological journey of the female heroine in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing. This paper applies the psychological approach since it is believed to be the most suitable approach to analyze the process of the heroine’s journey towards wholeness. It examines the process of individuation in the main plot of the novel and the characteristics of the process on the heroine’s personal quest. The portrayal of the individuation process is identified through the theory of individuation proposed by Charles Gustav Jung which discusses the process of the individual’s development towards psychological completeness. In order to support the analysis, library research was conducted using the novel as well as the supporting articles from any reliable websites. The result shows that the heroine’s journey can be translated as Jungian’s theory of individuation as there are six characteristics of the process of individuation found within the story. Furthermore, five stages occurred in the heroine’s journey, namely the recognition of the persona, the assimilation with the shadow, the confrontation with the animus, and lastly the appearance of the Self that leads the heroine towards psychological wholeness.

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从玛格丽特·阿特伍德的《表面》看女主人公走向完整的旅程

本文探讨了玛格丽特·阿特伍德小说《浮出水面》中女主人公的心理历程。本文采用了心理学的方法，因为它被认为是最适合分析女主人公走向完整的过程的方法。探讨了小说主要情节中的个性化过程，以及这一过程在女主角个人追求上的特点。通过荣格提出的个体化理论来确定个体化过程的写照，该理论讨论了个体向心理完整性发展的过程。为了支持分析，图书馆研究使用了小说以及来自任何可靠网站的支持文章。结果表明，主人公的旅程可以翻译成荣格的个性化理论，因为在故事中发现了个性化过程的六个特征。女主的人生历程经历了五个阶段，即对人格的认识，与影子的同化，与男性意向的对抗，最后是自我的出现，引导女主走向心理的完整。

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Mental Lexicon LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： The Mental Lexicon is an interdisciplinary journal that provides an international forum for research that bears on the issues of the representation and processing of words in the mind and brain. We encourage both the submission of original research and reviews of significant new developments in the understanding of the mental lexicon. The journal publishes work that includes, but is not limited to the following: Models of the representation of words in the mind Computational models of lexical access and production Experimental investigations of lexical processing Neurolinguistic studies of lexical impairment. Functional neuroimaging and lexical representation in the brain Lexical development across the lifespan Lexical processing in second language acquisition The bilingual mental lexicon Lexical and morphological structure across languages Formal models of lexical structure Corpus research on the lexicon New experimental paradigms and statistical techniques for mental lexicon research.