ABSTRACT
If there is a contemporary writer who fulfills Jung’s vision of the artist as a ‘vehicle and moulder of the unconscious psychic life of mankind’ (Jung 1930/ 1950: para.157), it is the Japanese author, Haruki Murakami. Particularly in his novel, Kafka on the Shore, Murakami imaginatively reshapes basic cultural frameworks such as real and imaginary, and taboo and initiation (Murakami 2002). He portrays the world of psyche as an objectively real place where psychological transformation may occur; and he depicts the taboo aspects of the Oedipus tale as a liberating initiation.
