A Jungian interpretation of The Tempest

The following psychological interpretation of Shakespeare\u27s The Tempest is unique to articles on the same subject which have appeared in literary journals because it applies a purely Jungian reading to the characters in the play. Here each character is shown to represent one of the archetypes which Jung described in his book Archetypes ~ the Collective Unconscious. In giving the play a psychological interpretation, the action must be seen to occur inside Prospera\u27s own unconscious mind. He is experiencing a psychic transformation or what Jung called the individuation process, where a person becomes a separate, indivisible unity or whole and where the conscious and unconscious are united