Ph.D. Dissertation:

Review Masnavi based on mythological archetypes

One of the new types of critique of literary texts is the archetypal critique of texts which is based on psychological critique and is based on the ideas of the famous and contemporary Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. According to him, there are three layers in the human psyche, ego-consciousness, individual unconscious, and collective unconscious. The deepest psychic layer is the collective unconscious as the myths, legends, and beliefs of thousands of years of mankind have come out of it. Jung called the products of the collective unconscious - the prototypes of archetypes- which has variety such as mother, old man, hero, anima, animus, rebirth, shadow and persona. According to Jung, the incarnations don't have content by themselves, so they come to appear in the form of symbols in dreams and mythology. Todays the archetypes are one of the main issues of literary criticism, especially mythical critique, and the search for archaic symbols is one of the issues of interest to scholars of mystical literature. Since Molavi is a mystic who has a symbolic mind and has composed Masnavi in the form of a simbolic work that has an abundance of archetypal symbols and is capable of reviewing the archetypes, so in this thesis, the archetypal symbols of Rumi's Masnavi have been studied in seven categories: Human, Natural, situational, numerical, geometric, color and animal archetypes.

Keywords: Keywords: Archetypes, Masnavi, Rumi, Jung, Myth, Symbol