With the aid of the psychology, which can function as a tool for decoding literary texts, and the hidden messages placed into the text by the author will be attempted to be revealed with the use of archetypal analysis. Thsen von J., Die Stimme hinter der Wand. This study examines the concept of archetype using Marlen Haushofer’s novel Die Wand (The Wall) as a point of reference. In Poland quite obscure, Marlen Haushofer (19201970) was an Austrian writer whose artistic work fell on the. The archetype exists in the range of collective unconscious and corresponds to a cultural heritage coded within the individual. She went to a Catholic gymnasium that was turned in a public school under the Nazi regime. The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, who is the prominent figure of analytical psychology, puts forward the concept of archetype, which can also be defined as the “first example.” Jung defines the collective unconscious through the concept of archetype. Marlen Haushofer was born in Frauenstein, Molln, Austria on April the 11th, 1920. This study focuses on a concept that corresponds both to literature and to psychology. Because of this rich blend, literature is tightly bound to many disciplines. It is an indisputable fact that literature is in interaction with other branches of science, and that this interdisciplinary interaction greatly enriches literary works.
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