Psychological Critique of Shahnameh Women Based on Jung's Theory (Based on the Characters of Gordafarid, Katayoun and Tahmineh)

Psychological critique is one of the most important areas of literary criticism based on modern psychology and Jung's theories. It uses a variety of archetypes to analyze people's personalities and evaluates their behavior in various cases. Meanwhile, the book Shahnameh and its female characters are important from various points of view, and in this study, their psychoanalysis is examined from Jung's point of view. Among them, Gerdafarid, Katayoun and Tahmineh have outstanding personalities who have various archetypes inherent in their nature that we have evaluated their psychoanalysis through various studies and the use of Jung's theories. Meanwhile, the archetypes of motherhood and individuality, along with the occurrence of animus symptoms in different situations, have distinguished their personality in every way, which is well demonstrated by the potential behaviors that have emerged from them, the psychology of their personality. Examining the people discussed in the Shahnameh, it was found that among the characters studied, Katayoun has the most ancient signs of the pattern, and his behavioral cues in various cases make the above theory more prominent. This research, which was done by analyzing the verses and describing their behaviors, evaluated the personality of each of the women discussed in the Shahnameh, and by using Jung's theories; we have interpreted and explained the different patterns of each individual.