Search For Mandala: The ‘Transcendent Function’ of Ruritaniain Rudolf Rassendyll’s Psycho-Analytical Journey towards‘Individuation’

Abstract

The journey motif has featured in a lot of literary works like The Heart of Darkness, Lord of the Rings and Gulliver’s Travels. The hero has to undergo a perilous journey in order to achieve spiritual greatness. This motif of journey can also be traced in The Prisoner of Zenda … a classic novel by Anthony Hope. Jungian analysis gives an added meaning to the journey and makes the meaning of the symbols and places incorporated in the novel by him, so that the whole novel appears to be a literary manifestation of Jung’s psycho-analytical theory.