How should we think about interpreting literature?

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Question: How should we think about interpreting literature?
Position‹4 of 4: Jungian Criticism

This position presents Jungian criticism as a way of interpreting literature. Drawing on Carl Jung's theory of the collective unconscious, it holds that great literature is saturated with universal archetypes, and that reading reveals these recurring symbolic patterns at work.

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Carl Jung's interpretation of art
Jung believed that great art, which certainly includes literature, reveals the primordial archetypes of humanity's collective unconscious.