Abstract:

The concept of archetype is also known as "first form", "first image", "prototype" and "root sample". The mother archetype is one of the main archetypes of C. G. Jung. The evaluation of motherhood, which exhibits a universal structure, in the same way all over the world within the framework of the social unconscious, constitutes the “supreme main archetype”. Motherhood is seen instinctively in the females of all living things. The woman with her child has maternal status in society. The mother type exists in daily life and narratives by carrying the traces of the mother archetype, sometimes with her positive aspects such as protecting her child against various dangers, coping with difficulties, nurturing and making sacrifices, and sometimes her negative aspects such as prevention, destruction and punishment. The mother archetype is connected with many cultural concepts, images, symbols and associated reflections. In narrative-based genres, concepts such as creation, death, light, darkness are represented by some images like sun, moon, deer, beech and cave etc. As a universal type, the mother is reshaped with each society's own teaching, the way it perceives and interprets the world. It belongs to a society with local values and elements. In this study, the representatives and reflections of the mother archetype will be revealed with their positive and negative aspects by means of the examples chosen from myth, fairy tale, epic, folk story and legends, which are accepted as witnesses of human history, which are the bearers of basic cultural values belonging to a society, bear traces from daily life, and carry one or more of the features that have the effect of persuasiveness.

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