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Moffitt, Mary Anne – 1987
A Jungian psychoanalytic approach, using the unconscious animus/anima archetype, can explain the appeal of the romance novel to women readers through an understanding of how the romance formula fulfills the psychological needs of contemporary women as the struggle for identity in a patriarchal society. The heroine of the romance is attracted to…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Characterization, Females, Feminism
