{"product_id":"monstrous-and-beautiful-von-nayana-rajnish","title":"Monstrous and Beautiful","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe subject of this research is the 1891 play Salomé, by Oscar Wilde and this book addresses the modern psychological implications of the cultural truths revealed by Wilde's re-vision of the myth of that biblical femme fatale. I argue that in fashioning a tragic heroine out of a female monster figure of ¿Immortal Vice¿, Oscar Wilde created a document that captures two contradictory narratives: one in which Salomé plays the heroine of a tragedy and another in which she performs the role and functions of a villain. By employing Carl Jung's psychology of the archetypes, I am enabled to read Wilde¿s play as a cultural and psychological phenomenon that (self-consciously) constructs a religious and patriarchal narrative around its central female character, which captures her in a tragedy of socially imposed destruction. Ultimately, this paper poses a psychological assessment of Salomé, in which Jungian archetypes illustrate--at a psychic level--Oscar Wilde¿s precocious and liberal-minded modernizations of a two thousand-year old myth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9786204735184\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJungian Archetypes in Wilde's Salome\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9786204735184","offer_id":39791015100509,"sku":"9786204735184","price":43.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/88b518c5-b17a-4d88-8190-1d5d60297a9c.jpg?v=1758953893","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/monstrous-and-beautiful-von-nayana-rajnish","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}