Hem's Literary Hub

    In The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Jung discussed at length many of the archetypal patterns. one major contribution is Jung's theory of Individuation. as related to those archetypes designated as the shadow, the persona and the anima. Individuation is a psychological growing up the process of discovering one's self that make one an individual must consciously recognize the various aspects, unfavorable as well as favorable, of one's total self.      The shadow, the persona and the anima are structural components of the psyche that human beings have inherited just we encounter the symbolic projections of these archetypes throughout the myths and the literature of the humankind. In melodrama, such as the traditional television or western film or cop story, the persona, the anima, and the shadow are projected, respectively in the characters of the hero, the heroine and the villain. The 'shadow' is the darker side of our unconscious...

I saw him in brightness. I could see his face clearly than before. Unbelievable! His appearance was not like a prof. he seemed so handsome, young. He wore a black overcoat on his yellow v-necked T-shirt that pictured a rudy unicorn in black color. His hair was 1½ inched evenly long, curled shortly and utterly black in color. He had a fair-complexion, clean shaved face, brown eyes, which is unrelated to his clear Tamil. I saw something was disturbing me in his face. That was something. Eyes, ears neck, nothing. But something in his face is…disturbed me. Yeah! I got that. Yes, ‘the pierce’. I found an expired pierce on the right of his nose. It seemed like a black dot. .  .  . There we had only one kilometer to cross the boundary of west Bengal, where I could see the NHAI’s huge green reflected, ‘thank you. Visit again.’ Moreover, we even crossed a toll plaza. He paid the toll amount and we crossed the gate. It became late evening. The increased speed touched 180 km....