Characters in M. Tsvetaeva’s “The House at Old Pimen” as C.G. Jung’s Archetypes

This article is meant to study the characters of Marina Tsvetaeva’s lyrical essay “The House at Old Pimen” through the prism of Carl Jung’s archetypes. Four main characters, Dmitriy Ilovaysky, Alexandra Kovrayskaya and their children, Serezha and Nadya embody the archetypes of the Wise Old Man, the Mother, the Animus and the Anima, respectively. The ambivalent nature of the first two archetypes (both their positive and negative sides) is revealed. This aspect shows the authority of the characters of Ilovaysky and Kovrayskaya over their children, which helps to shed light on the complicated relationship between the members of this part of Marina Tsvetaeva’s family.