AN EXAMINATION OF THE FILM “MATRIX RESURRECTIONS” IN THE CONTEXT OF JUNGIAN CONCEPT OF ARCHETYPE

Abstract

While the common ground of art and popular culture products is human creativity, popular culture
products, as the name suggests, are the products of the people. But it is possible that the productions
that the public will like, turn into mass culture today, where the economic determinant is dominant. However, regardless of its basic motivation, it is possible to say that every work that contains the
core of creativity has a relationship with the unconscious, which is the field of creativity. What can
we see by considering movies with an analytical psychology approach? What do these productions,
which contain elements from myths, fairy tales and dreams, tell us from the field of the
unconscious? The Matrix series has managed to impress the audience since the first movie was
released and attracted the attention of many researchers from different fields. In this study, the
relationship of cinema with myth, dream, and fairy tale is evaluated from a psychoanalytic
perspective, and the Matrix series and especially the last film of the series, The Matrix
Resurrections (Lena Wachovski, 2021), is tried to be examined with the guidance of Carl Gustav
Jung, the founder of analytical psychology. The film, which opens up many fields of inquiry with its
approach to reality, is this time handled with an approach from the field of inner reality.
For this reason, this study tries to look at the elements of the film, which can be associated with
popular culture and the culture industry, from the field of the unconscious. For this purpose, Jung's
approach based on myths, dreams and ancient beliefs that he examined in order to understand the
unconscious of man is used.