''The Individuated Hobbit: Jung, Tolkien, and the Archetypes of Middle-Earth'' (1979) is a
critical study of the works of
J.R.R. Tolkien by
Timothy R. O'Neill. It is written from a
Jungian
Analytical psychology ( de , Analytische Psychologie, sometimes translated as analytic psychology and referred to as Jungian analysis) is a term coined by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, to describe research into his new "empirical science" ...
perspective, with particular emphasis on
Jungian archetypes.
Reception
The book was called "a compelling and influential Jungian reading" (2013) by Christopher Vaccaro, editor of ''The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium''.
The Tolkien scholar
Thomas Honegger called it "the unsurpassed standard work on the subject" (2019).
References
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Books of literary criticism
Books about Middle-earth
1979 non-fiction books
Houghton Mifflin books