"I'm a Stranger Here Myself": Forced Individuation in Alien Resurrection.

From: Journal of Religion and Popular Culture | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Kile M. Ortigo Department of Psychology Emory University

In Alien Resurrection, Ripley's hybridity catalyzes her unnatural individuation--a unique and significant contribution to the technological myth. Using an analytic framework created from Jung, Rushing, Frentz, and Haraway, I chart Ripley's complex journey towards individuation, beginning with spiritual mentoring, moving through the mythic significance of her dual wounds, including her equally important double captivity, and the final challenge towards a hybrid mode of individuation in the form of her hideous offspring, ...

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