The Rose Garden' in T. S. Eliot is his goal which he struggled to form all through his life. He had been in a state of spiritual darkness for a long time, which we can see in his poems such as, `The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', 'Portrait of a Lady' and in many other early poems, In Four Quartets, he attained `the still point', `The Rose Garden', where he could find 'light' and the peace of mind. In the process of psychoanalytical study, Jung drew many `Mandala' and he also recommended his patients to draw 'pictures'which express their state of spiritual depression. In the course of recovery, Jung found their pictures gradually grew more and more like `Mandala'. In this report, I tried to combine the worlds of T. S. Eliot's `The Rose Garden' and C. G. Jung's rose garden, `Mandala'.

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In his essay, 'The theme of the three caskets', Sigmund Freud says King Lear could not recognize Cordelia as the Death - goddess, which brought about his tragedy. I, however, suppose King Lear saw the shadow of a dead woman on COrdelia's face both in the first scene and in the last one. This made him fear greatly and banish her. This illusion comes out of what J. Lacan calls 'le reel', I presume. In his essay, 'Introduction and reply to Jean Hyppolite's presentation of Freud's Verneinung', J. Lacan cites the wolfman's hallucination explained in Freud's essay, 'From the history of an infantile neurosis', as an evidence of this. But in Z. Ethique de la psychoanalyse, Seminar VII', he insists that 'Das Ding' which one meets in one's early infantile periods comes as an illusion out of le reel'. The Illusion King Lear saw on Cordelia's face was the latter one, I imagine.

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Winesburg, Ohio was the first book to bring recognition so Sherwood Anderson. Reviewing Winesburg, Ohio in the New Statesman, Rebecca West wrote: "It is an extraordinarily good book But it is not fiction. It is poetry. It is unreasonable; it delights in places where those who are not poets could never find delight; it will not follow logic and find connections and trace 'plot', but stands in front of things that are of no importance and hymns them with obstinate ecstasy "Anderson said that he wanted Winesburg, Ohio to give the "feeling of the life of a boy growing to manhood in a small town. " Winesburg, Ohio involves the developing character of George Willard. Three factors are adduced that have caused the developng character of George Willard. Firsr, George becomes firmly committed to his peace of mind rather than money - making. The second way in which George develops is maturity in having something to do with women; that is caused by the pursuit of his mother's Imago because of his libidinal fixation to the phase of the Oedipus complex. Winesburg, Ohio is an initiation story, that is to say, Bildungsroman.

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The conception of human nature has led the Third Force psychologists to see healthy human development as a process of self - actualization, and unhealthy development as a process of self alienation. Maslow in one of the great students of self - actualization: Actually Maggie in The Mill on the Fross by George Eliot could not be self - actualizing. Then what kind of process she had is the subject of this essay.

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