Tricksters to Delegate the Shadow: Analysing Goethe’s Erlkönig and Keats’s La Belle Dame sans Merci through a Jungian Framework
This article examines Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Der Erlkönig (1782) and John Keats's ballad La Belle Dame sans Merci (1819) within the framework of Jungian psychoanalysis, focusing particularly on the poetic representation of the shadow and trickster archetypes. The study argues that both works vividly dramatise the...