Toni Jung Research Paper

Director Darren Aronofsky names his film “Black Swan” a role the main character Nina struggles with. The Black Swan is a hard character for the fragile, innocent Nina to grasp, especially, under all the pressure Nina places upon herself to become perfect. The movie “Black Swan” is about a lead ballerina struggle to complete her role in a Broadway play “Swan Lake”. Aronofsky uses many different aspects to open the minds of the audience to the world of ballet.

Surrounded by her silent friends, Margaret loved to sit at the window and gaze out at the fields. A vague sadness often filled her and she found herself stirred by longings and aspirations. She also sustained the idea that the soul of the human being is perverted and annihilated by society, and that after living among other humans and depending on the system, one becomes unaware of his/her inner resources and powers, leading him/her to confusion and overall chaos. Solitude is the only method, isolation reconstructing the inner qualities, bringing spiritual purity, leading the individual to a more subjective way of analyzing reality and strengthening his methods of copping with the muddy and static world subjugating him.

This Darren Aronofsky film Black Swan is a psychological thriller about a ballerina, Nina, who allows dance to control every aspect of her life and is obsessed with the idea of perfection. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica who exerts a suffocating control over her. She is a professional dancer in a New York company,

According to Jung, “One function of consciousness is to maintain the relationship between the ego and the unconscious”(Laughlin, Tiberia, 131). To understand this completely, we must look at Jung’s ideas involving the consciousness. Jung believed that the consciousness is comprised of innumerable archetypes - defined as a very typical example of a certain person or thing - that we have by simple virtue of being human. Then - depending on how and what the person experiences - some of these archetypes will develop into networks, known as complexes. Finally, one will gain dominance of the consciousness and is called the ego-complex. This brings us back to the point made earlier, that one of the functions of the consciousness is to maintain the relationship between the ego and unconscious. Basically, what Jung is saying is that there is two personalities in the human mind. One is called the ego, and the other is the unconscious. Freud said the same thing, calling it the ego and id. But that is what the story arcs in the novel stand for. The Calcutec has a very well developed unconscious, which is something many people don’t have. So instead of not knowing the personality in his unconscious, he sees it as a coherent story in which he is a completely different story. It is mentioned in the arc of Wonderland that he actually doesn’t know when he is one or the other until the Professor explains it all to him.

Black Swan and Whiplash both feature intense practice sequences that build upon the narrative of obsessing over a craft. This intense and obsessive practice leads up to the conclusion of the films; where each character gives their absolute best performance. Nina’s final transformation into an impure and sinful character is completed when she grows black wings and slams her mother’s hand in her door. During the performance, Nina gets into an altercation with herself and stabs herself in the pure White Swan costume. Andrew transforms into “one of the greats” as he is embarrassed by Fletcher on stage. They both have their careers riding on their performances. They both fail to begin with; Andrew not knowing the chart the rest of the band is playing and Nina falling during act I of Swan Lake. Yet their greatness is proven when they give the final goodbye to their parental figures and former youth. Andrew runs off stage, hugs his dad and his former reality, as he knows his life will never be what it once was. Nina exchanges eye contact with her crying mother as she looks proudly onto her daughter dancing like she never could.

Carl Jung was one of the main theorists in the Psychodynamic field and created his own theory, psychoanalysis. Jung was a student of Freud and his theories and ideas very much align with Freud’s theories. The similarities are evident in Jung’s ideas of unconsciousness, his theory of the libido, and is his notions of archetypes. The main difference is that Jung emphasized other factors besides childhood memories. He partly focused on future aspirations and also delved into the supernatural in his theories and ideas.

Black Swan is a psycho thriller film that narrates the life of a ballerina called Nina Sayers (played by Natalie Portman). She is a young, ambitious dancer working for a prestigious NYC ballet company. According to the movie, she was around twenty-some year old when the story begins. Even though the main point of the movie is how bad Nina wanted the lead role for a theater production called Swan Lake, the dark drama around the movie is built by the psychological illness of its protagonist. Nina’s disordered relationship with her roommate/mother Erica, played by Barbara Hershey, sets the stage for Nina’s psychological breakdown. In the movie, the role that Nina always wanted requires her to play both the black and white swans. Her innocent, almost child-like personality makes her a perfect hite swan; however, she was having trouble getting into the character of the white swan’s dark and seductive counterpart. This film brilliantly captures the brutal physical and emotional demands that ballerinas face in their short-lived career span.

Black Swan centers on Nina, and introduces doubt and psychical thematically through devices of dreams vivid enough to be mistaken for reality, scenes of sex and struggle imagined as a real, hallucinations of Nina’s mirrored partial body, transforming whole body in dance, projected dark twin body outside herself. At a point, one starts to wonder if perhaps some of the characters are not simply projections of

The Black Swan film, Directed by Darren Aronofsky is a phycological thriller. This story is about a mid aged girl named Nina, who is a ballerina trying out for a swan queen part, in the play, swan lake. It’s complicated because she is a goody two shoes who’s only good for the white swan part. Nina is going through some changes with coming to age, and confusion with sexuality. Which helps her grow from a pure and white swan, into a black sinful swan. The new dancer (her understudy) known as Lilly, who is a rebellious girl. Lilly helps Nina evolve into the “black swan” almost referring to her maturity into womanhood. The stress for the part becomes too much for her and she begins to lose touch with reality, not sure what she seeing in front of her is real or not. The scene I am analyzing is the final performance scene. In this scene, Nina finally becomes the black swan by killing herself, making herself having the perfect performance she has always dreamed of.

The Self is another one of Jung’s major archetypes in his psychoanalytic theory. It can be analysed through characters in different ways. The main interpretation relates this archetype to a coherent entirety and a secondary method of analysis bases it on character individuation, which is the act of an individual consciousness emerging from an indifferent state. It represents the unification of consciousness and unconsciousness in a person and is a way to examine one’s psyche as a whole, but is often depicted in the grand scheme of literature by deities and abstract principles, such as nirvana. This particular archetype is very apparent in The Orenda, evidenced by the firmly believed presence of powerful deities and

4. Transformational leaderships are more effective because they are more creative but also because they encourage those who follow them to be creative too. Companies with transformational leaders, there is greater decentralization of responsibility, managers have more propensity to take risk and compensation plan are geared towards long term results. Using this strategy, Jung tried to recover Avon from crisis. She took risk by trimming 7 layers of management, increase the advertisement budget by 83%, build more communication with customers by developing the marketing and advertising department in Avon. By doing so, she able to increase Avon’s sales growth in 2006.

Carl Jung’s concept of individuation is the quest for wholeness in which the subject becomes conscious of themselves as unique and distinct. Seated very much in the tradition of enlightenment, the idea places emphasis on the individual 's capacity to gain further understanding and knowledge through analysis and reasoning, investing the individual with the power to defy trends and avoid group think. Imagine a tiny pebble thrown into a pond, causing a rippling effect through the surrounding water. Although the pebble is small, it causes multiple ripples that significantly change the pond, even if temporarily. Similarly, a single character in a novel can cause ripples in the lives of other characters. Our actions and choices are capable of causing ripples in the 'ponds ' of other 's realities, even those largely disconnected from our own. These ripples shape a person 's impression of individuality and of their Self. In Robertson Davies’ ‘Fifth Business’, even the minor characters that Dunstan Ramsay encounters, as well as his various experiences have different degrees of impact on his process of Individuation. Throughout the novel, Dunstan is self-reflective and becomes aware not only of how he is being shaped, but of himself as an identifiable form, at once shaped by his environment and propelled by his will. Carl Jung defined an archetype as "[an] original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated; a symbol

Dark clothes, another word, dark side of her are symbolized id. Besides, she have to take out id to be a Black Swan. Her ego is working really perfect. For example, while dancing, her teacher says “you are controlled yourself pretty much, just relaxed and feel the music. Being perfect is not important.” In scene kissing the director, we can see that id take out and she lose their control. After, she feels shame because of her superego. I think that she is pressed sexuality very much. This sexuality is an unconscious and sometimes, it is taken out. On the other hand, she is always sensitive and fragile. I think that it is a kind of defense mechanism which is reaction formation. In this movie, Black Swan (id) and White Swan (superego) is in same body, but there must be a balance among them. If you act like there is no other part, it can be destruction. Through the movie, she scratch at her back and finally she find out some feathers on her back, it is an effort to take out id. In genital stage is important development of identity. In masturbation scene, Nina start to masturbate in morning, and suddenly she see her mother in room, it is symbolized importance of sexuality of development of identity. In scene dancing in the bar, we can see that she consubstantiate Black Swan (id) with her friend Lily. Also, in sex scene with lily, the face of lily is transformed Nina’s face. Beth who is old starring character is symbolizing Nina’s superego. She thinks that that Beth is perfect and I never will be like her. Also she wants to be her situation but she never admits it because of her superego. For instance, when she visits Beth in hospital, Beth is stabbing herself and her face is transformed Nina’s face at the same time. It is show that she defeats her superego. Also the scene of her arms break and being like swan’s leg is demonstrate is completion of taking out

Black Swan is a psychological thriller film that revolves around, Nina Sayers, a ballerina in a prestigious New York City ballet company who desperately aspires to get the part of the Swan Queen in the production of Swan Lake. The part requires a ballerina to perform both the Black and White Swan, however, Nina does not possess the dark, seductive quality needed for the Black Swan. She strives for perfection in every dance step, chastising herself when she makes a minor flaw, and it gets in the way with the careless, loose characteristics of the Black Swan. With the pressures of her mother, director, and competitors, Nina withdraws from reality and gets in touch with her dark side. She begins to get hallucinations, delusions, and paranoia

Black Swan follows the production of the classical ballet piece swan lake. The piece requires the main ballerina to be able to emulate both sides of the swan queen the innocent White Swan, and its evil twin the dark, impulsive, and carnal Black Swan. The protagonist Nina captures the innocence of the White Swan, however struggles to connect with the complex nature of the black swan. Although she is cast, she cannot truly lose herself in the role and feels tremendous pressure, going into a hysteria trying to become the perfect swan