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"Myself I Found" : A Jungian Reading Of Coleridge's The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, James Ralph Brooks

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner¹ is essentially a poem of survival through transformation, one which, according to William Walsh, 'has to do equally with man's capacity for failure and with that which makes available to him resources for recovery."² It is also. as Richard Haven recognizes, "the record of the evolution of self." ³ Even more specifically, however, The Ancient Mariner is s tale which reveals key elements of Carl Jung's thought: the process of individuation, the nature of shadow and anima forces, the power of dreams and symbolism.

Given the myriad and divergent interpretations of the …