著者

関谷 武史

出版者

サイコアナリティカル英文学会

雑誌

サイコアナリティカル英文学論叢

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1985, no.9, pp.39-52, 1985

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We can't say that the motives of characters' actions in Richard Ill are fully supplied before and after they are determined upon. As the main examples of incomplete motivation, we can pick up three ones: why did Richard live such a wicked life? why was Anne, the widow of Edward, Prince of Wales, wooed and won by Richard with all her hatred to him? and why were others so helpless against him? There have been many explanations, which we can't be fully satisfied with. Now, in this play we often meet the word 'shadow', uttered mainly by Richard himself. Seeking for its true meaning, we come to the conclusion that it almost coincides with what Jung calls `the shadow'. When we take the viewpoint that Richard is the image of the archetypal shadow as well as of the personal one, the problems picked up above can be solved, I suppose. And observing how others get out of his control over themselves, we find there rises up the image of `the self', one of Jung's archetypes, from behind them.