Comparing Carl Jung's Archetypes, And

Carl Jung, born in 1875 in Switzerland, was a successor of Sigmund Freud, who is well known for his input on the human psyche. Jung collaborated but disagreed with Freud on some occasions--one being “the sexual basis of neuroses” (“Carl Jung”). He developed several of his own ideas: animus and anima--or the inner persona of masculinity/femininity--; shadow--

“that hidden, repressed, for the most part inferior and guilt-laden personality . . . If it has been believed hitherto that the human shadow was the source of evil, it can now be ascertained on closer investigation that the unconscious man, that is his shadow does not consist only of morally reprehensible tendencies, but also displays a number of good qualities, such as normal instincts, appropriate reactions, realistic insights, creative impulses etc”--; the spirit that has spiritual needs different to religious and physical needs; the “conception of introverts and extroverts and the notion that people can be categorized as one of the two, depending on the extent to which they exhibit certain functions of consciousness”; mythical archetypes in literature that lead to his idea of the collective conscious; et cetera (“Jung's Archetypes”; Perry; Clark; “Carl Jung”).

The false noble is entreated to another lie when he is told he has a wife--one who is a man in disguise as a woman. This preface ends when actors start to perform the story. The story is about to men wanting to wed a woman, but in order to do this, they must find her sister--a outspoken, droll woman (shrew)--a husband willing to take her. The men manipulate the father by donning their own disguises and going by different names. The men succeed in wedding the shrew and one finds himself married to the intended sister. The play ends in a feast, where the husbands have a obedience contests and Katherina, the shrew,