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Gothic Structures of Being in Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights'

Diana Eugenia Panait-Ioncică

  • Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania

DOI https://doi.org/10.24818/DLG/2022/39/13

Pages 196–204

Licence © 2022 the authors · CC BY 4.0

Abstract

The current study attempts to uncover Gothic structures of being in Emily Brontë's novel 'Wuthering Heights'. The Gothic could be seen as illustrating a comeback to the mystery of the Middle Ages. We see mystery as a search for the unknown, unconscious part of the being. According to Jung, our past is always underlying the structure of our being, lurking beneath the rational, conscious mind. It is a pivotal part of our spirit, as, '…Without these inferior levels, our spirit is left hanging in the air' (Jung, 1997: 41). Jung states that there is a sort of primitive fear regarding the possible contents of the unconscious, a secret terror towards the 'perils of the soul' (Jung, 1997: 20). It is these 'perils' we are trying to shed light on in the current paper, in the hope of presenting a reading of the novel that will enrich its meaning and clarify some of the mythical patterns which form the basis of the story.

Keywords —

Gothic · Jungian interpretation · animus · anima · unconscious
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Panait-Ioncică, D. E. (2022). Gothic Structures of Being in Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights'. Dialogos, 39, 196–204. https://doi.org/10.24818/DLG/2022/39/13

Panait-Ioncică, Diana Eugenia. “Gothic Structures of Being in Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights'.” Dialogos, vol. 39, 2022, pp. 196–204, https://doi.org/10.24818/DLG/2022/39/13.

Panait-Ioncică, Diana Eugenia. 2022. “Gothic Structures of Being in Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights'.” Dialogos 39: 196–204. https://doi.org/10.24818/DLG/2022/39/13.

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