dc.contributor.author	Barrera, Sara E.
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-25T13:21:12Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-25T13:21:12Z
dc.date.issued	2023-12-07
dc.identifier.other	9A703B39-DFE1-8BB9-43BF-630DAF568570	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10428/7144
dc.description.abstract	Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel Lolita has always been known to scholars as parodying psychoanalytical concepts. Nevertheless, recent scholarship has shown how psychologically indepth and penetrating Nabokov’s novels are. As Brian Boyd, an eminent Nabokovian scholar, states in the chapter, “The Psychological Work of Fictional Play,” “Nabokov’s psychology, like his ethics and metaphysics, is another dimension of his work that I think we cannot separate from his work as literature” (109). Consequently, contemporary scholarship has analyzed Nabokov’s Lolita through many psychological angles and theories. Yet, none so far has seen Lolita through the psychological process of projection and shown how the narration of Lolita reveals the unconscious projection at work through Nabokov’s acute understanding of the psyche. Furthermore, there is a lack of Jungian literary perspective being applied to Lolita in Lolita’s literary criticism. Thus, this thesis aims at applying, well-known Jungian analyst James Hollis’ projection process, discussed in his book, The Eden Project in Search of the Magical Other, to Humbert Humbert’s relationship with Dolores, and how this prompts an individuation journey for Nabokov’s self-deceptive narrator.	en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents	I. Introduction 9 -- II. Literary Criticism and Jungian Literary Theory 13 -- III. The Projected Place: Humbert Humbert’s Edenic Search in Dolores 22 -- IV. The Projected Place Uprooted: Dolores leaves Humbert Humbert 50 -- V. Humbert Humbert’s Death and Return to the Eternal 60 -- VI. Conclusion 70 -- VII. Works Cited. 71	en_US
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dc.subject	Academic theses	en_US
dc.subject	English literature	en_US
dc.subject	Jungian psychology	en_US
dc.subject	Lolita (Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich)	en_US
dc.title	A Projected Place of Past Perfection: Reading Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita through a Jungian Literary Lens	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Department of English of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Williams, Marty
dc.description.committee	Wood, Adam
dc.description.committee	McClellan, Irina
dc.description.degree	M.A.	en_US
dc.description.major	English	en_US