SUMMARY :
– Introduction
– 1. A Synoptic Star Wars: Disney’s Best-Laid Plans to Canonize a Living Mythology
– 2. The Force, Jedi, and Sith in Jungian Terms
– 3. Yoda: From Green-Man Senex to Divine Child
– 4. Palpatine: Dark-Side Senex of Absolute Evil
– 5. Possession by Affect in Anakin Skywalker’s Quest for Control
– 6. “One Destroyed Being”: The Splinter Psyche and Redemption of Darth Vader
– 7. The Transcendent Function and Luke Skywalker’s New Ethic of Balance
– 8. Leia: Archetypal Antiprincess, Huttslayer, Mother
– 9. The Falconer Can Hear the Wildman: Han Solo’s Individuation
– 10. Reylo: The combination of a dyad in the force
– Epilogue
Based on Jungian perspectives and the influence of Joseph Campbell and James Hillman, this work examines the richness of the characters and the history of the saga using concepts from analytical psychology.
He explores various fields including the acquisition of Lucasfilm by Disney in 2012 and the concept of Canon, as well as strength and several emblematic characters (Yoda, Luke Skywalker, Dark Vador, Princess Leia Organa, etc …).
By understanding the psychological foundation of its mythical aspects, we learn to consider Star Wars as a great story of the human condition.