Hero-ego in Search of Self : A Jungian

In Hero-Ego in Search of Self, Judy Anne White offers a perceptive explanation for continued interest in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. Building upon the earlier work of Jeffery Helterman and John Miles Foley, she argues that the sum of all confrontations between hero and monster in Beowulf equals the process of individual psychological development identified by Carl Jung as individuation. Dr. White's study proposes that the hero's struggle is the universal struggle towards self-knowledge - and that Beowulf thus resonates for the contemporary reader as it did for the poet's original audience.

Judy Anne White teaches English literature at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Acknowledgment	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Shadow	p. 7
Beowulf and Grendel	p. 7
The Battle	p. 24
The Universal Archetype	p. 31
The Anima	p. 43
Grendel's Mother	p. 43
The Mere	p. 51
Beowulf's Approach	p. 56
The Encounter	p. 61
The Great Mother	p. 76
The Hero's Confrontation with the Self Archetype	p. 83
Beowulf and the Dragon	p. 83
Beowulf's Preparations for Battle	p. 90
The Final Conflict	p. 95
Selected Bibliography	p. 113
Index	p. 121
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Hero-ego in Search of Self : A Jungian Reading of Beowulf

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