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The Seven Jungian Horcruxes: A Jungian Interpretation of Harry Potter Symbolism
Program Code:
500
Date:
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Time:
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
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Priscilla Hobbs, MA is a Ravenclaw and a first year doctoral student at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She holds a Master’s degree in Mythological Studies and wrote her thesis centering on Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings. She also serves on the board of directors for the Jung Society of Austin and coordinates the Austin RoundTable for the Joseph Campbell Foundation. She is very concerned about the role of mythology in the modern world, borrowing much of her research from both Jung and Campbell.
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Description
This presentation will explore the stories from a deep, psychological Jungian perspective. This entails pulling key characters, magical objects, and concepts from all seven books and applying them to Carl Jung's models of the unconscious and psychology. Through this, we can explore the popularity of the novels from another angle, one that suggests that the popularity of Harry Potter is due in part to the fact that the novels are literary models of the psyche.