An Examination On The Archetypa Structure Of Hursit And Mahmihri Folktale

Archetype, which means first example, genuine model, first type; is like the structres that forms cultures. Archetypes creat new notion by gathering and they come to the conscious via myths, dreams and symbols in folktales. According to Jung who is the founder of analytic psychology, humans have the conscious, the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. In the collective unconscious, there are culturel phenomenons which has brought from their fathers by atavism unwittingly beared by the people, like saga and tale. One of the culturel products which produced by the societies is folktales. It’s been transferred by the storyteller minstrel in the chat environment. Even though the stroies which were transferred to the writing look like the individual products, the creator is the society. Story separates from the types likesaga and tale which includes preternaturalnes. The preternaturalnes makes up as the old man archetype in the story. The function of this archetype is limited like; having a baby by giving an apple, providing to be a minstrel and falling love iin the dream and helping hero in the times of trouble. It’s splited up in recognition of the topics as love and epic stories. One of the story which treats the love topic is Hursit and Mahmihri. The goal of the work is to determine to archetypes in Hursit and Mahmihri. As the method, “Psychoanalytic Folklore Theory” which is one of the text-based folklore theoy is used. In the story examined, C. Gustav Jung’s; old man, anima, individuality, persona, shadow and me archetypes in the personal unconscious and collective unconscious were detected.

Keywords

personal unconscious, collective unconscious, archetype,Hursit and Mahmihri