Studying the Concept of Jung’s Mother Archetype in Ernest Hemingway’s Cat in the Rain and Hills like White Elephants , An Archetypal Reading

Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway is seen as one of the great American 20th century novelists, and is known for works like A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea. Carl Gustav Jung, the Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist founded analytic psychology, in some aspects a response to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis. The aim of this research is to show the reasons for Hemingway’s female characters’ sentimental behaviors with apparently no human logic based on Jung’s theory of mother archetype in two stories of Hemingway, Cat in the Rain and Hills Like White Elephants . The investigation is done through the close reading of the characters’ conversations and analyzing them in light of Jung’s Archetypal theories.

Keywords:

Mother Archetype , Psychoanalysis , Empowering Emotions , Symbolic Images , Emotional Components.