Contemporary Canadian women's fiction a jungian reading of Ying Chen's L'ingratitude, Christiane Frenette's La terre ferme, Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on your knees, and Anne Michaels' Fugitive pieces
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Abstract
These novels suggest the paradoxical nature of a quest in which fulfilled desire is certain death at the same time as the desire for no desire is an inevitable state which leads to psychological rebirth. In this thesis, I explore lung's theory of the inevitability of desire and its expression in the four novels. I consider lung's theory of the archetype of the self for its potential to name the phases of the characters' psychological growth. I see in lung's theory of the mysterium coniunctionis, or marriage of opposites, the potential to make unusual interpretations in the study of symbols and character development. I suggest that the character of Kathleen transforms into the character of Lily in MacDonald's Fall On Your Knees. I see Kathleen's death as the death of a limited identity, of"the father's daughter," and Lily's birth as the beginning of the continuation of the same character, one who has undergone a fundamental change of"self." In the second chapter, I read the narrator's death in Chen's L'Ingratitude symbolically as an experience of the unconscious. In the third chapter, I examine how Jakob's quest to find himself takes him to an imaginary place which can be compared to that place which Jung calls the collective unconscious. I read the narratives presented in the italicized portion of the novel as voices from a place with no time-space limits, as the fugitive pieces which complete the puzzle of Jakob's character. In the final chapter, I suggest that the character of the mother in La Terre ferme breaks free of the traditional boundaries set for the mother in fiction and rescues the fictional mother from her marginalized place as one and the same as the silent unconscious.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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