C.G. Jung, analytical psychology, and the 'structure of feeling' in the Modern period

The thesis proposes that Raymond Williams's cultural materialist notion of the 'structure of feeling' can be interpreted as an unconscious historical process. The 'structure of feeling' is discussed on the one hand in relation to Jungian analytical psychology and, on the other hand, in the context of the emergence of a shift in nineteenth century European historical thought from a tradition and style of objective, documented, history, to the value of the historicist notion of 'feeling into' the past. Williams's idea that representations of the living sense of an historical period are conveyed as an impression of the character and tone of that period in its symbolic forms and become 'felt' in another, later, time and place, are examined in relation to Jungian notions of the collective unconscious and the archetypes. The articulation of the 'structure of feeling' in the Modern period are examined in Jung's writings and in Virginia Woolf's novel, 'Mrs Dalloway' (1925).