Jungian Archetypes in High Fantasy Films: An Explorative Study of Disney Movies.

Myths and fairy tales which upturns physical laws are present in all cultures and societies. The collective unconscious carries these, thus contributing to the repeated motifs of the myths, folk tales and fairy tales. Adored by a universal audience, fantasy films, mostly made around them, have a cult following. This paper attempts to understand the latent Jung archetypes focusing on the Mother archetype present in selected fantasy movies made by Disney from 2010. Qualitative methodology involving content analysis is used to identify the archetypical elements in the films. The movies are analysed based on Jungian Archetype, the Mother. The central argument of the paper is that the strongest and majorly present archetype portrayed in Disney films of this decade is ‘the mother’.

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