• Maryam Karami Nezhad

  Author

The movie “I Am a Mother” an Iranian film made in 2012 by Fereydoun Jeyrani
attempts to depict various issues that the Iranian society of the time faces. On one hand the
movie shows how sometimes the hardships and the burden of being a mother stand next to
living in hell and on the other hand, how women instinctively crave becoming a mother and
fill incomplete without a child. In the following few pages the movie “I Am a Mother” will be
analyzed based on Jung’s Psychological theory of the mother archetype. Therefore a
description of the theory will be given and the role of a mother, the love she has for her
children, the sacrifices she willingly makes for them, and the pain she feels when losing a
child as shown in the movie, will be attended to. Therefore this essay will mainly focus on the
female characters each of whom has experienced the feeling of being a mother for a period in
their lives. Before moving on to the psychoanalysis of the characters, a short introduction to
the plot of the movie seems necessary.

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