POETRY AS THERAPY: ARCHETYPES OF SELF, SHADOW, AND SEEKER IN JALAL AL DIN RUMI, ARTHUR RIMBAUD, AND KAHLIL GIBRAN FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND CROSS-CULTURAL RESILIENCE

Abstract [English]

Global Mental Health Organization has characterised crises by anxiety, trauma, depression, cultural fragmentation and finding solutions for them by bridging literature and psychology. Drawing approaches from Freud, Jung and Rogers, this study examines poetry as a therapy with the help of the poems of Jalal al - Din Rumi, Arthur Rimbaud, and Kahlil Gibran. This article proposes that poetry functions to help for emotional integration and resilience.
Through archetypes identified from the textual analysis of Rumi, Rimbaud, and Gibran, the configurations self, shadow, and seeker. These archetypes are psychological coping models to process fragmentation, confrontation, and integration. This paper attempts to study the therapeutic value of poetry in light of archetypal psychoanalysis through Rumi, Rimbaud, and Gibran. Poetry also has the capacity to intermediate and foster emotional resilience. The findings contribute to literary studies, healing and therapy, and psychology.
The article argues that poetry operates as a potential mediation offering symbolic reconciliation of trauma, alienation, and existential lack. By placing Eastern mysticism and Western modernism this study highlights poetry’s cross-cultural capacity to foster emotional resilience. The findings make a significant contribution to literary studies, cultural psychology, and therapeutic humanities, demonstrating that archetypal poetry combines a form of cultural healing that extends across geographical and historical boundaries.