Analysis of Anima's archetype in the character of Piran Vise

Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, as one of the masterpieces of Persian literature, is rooted in ancient ideas and beliefs. The Shahnameh, like any great literary work, is rooted in the collective unconscious. The purpose of this article is to show that the Shahnameh, from the perspective of archetypal critique, is a vast collection of symbolic concepts and archetypes. This article seeks to identify and explain one of these archetypes. In this article, the character of Piran Vise in the Shahnameh is analyzed from the perspective of Anima's archetype. The main question of this article is how a great work such as Shahnameh, Anima's archetype, can be seen as one of the contents of the collective unconscious. According to Jung's theory, we all have a significant amount of other sex capacities. Therefore, we have masculine and feminine attributes. Often, various factors that affect the sociability of women and men prevent the occurrence Anima of in men. However, in Shahnameh, in some cases, Anima is manifested in men in the form of special moods and feminine behaviors, and this makes the character of men more balanced. This article concludes that attention to the inner aspects and voices, in men and women, flourishes and perfects the character. This article is an analytical-descriptive study based on library studies.