Pilgrimage and Return: A Preliminary Study on the Prototype of James Gunn’s Transcendental Novels

Archetype is the path to unconscious, myth one of forms archetype in ancient times, and science fiction a modern myth. What have common reflection on current order imagination unknown world (the dream about unknown). James Gunn’s “Transcendent”, series contemporary re-writing Campbell’s heroic model, as well re-creation pilgrimage narrative model Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, with Jung’s immutable lurking behind it. This paper attempts explore prototype mechanism created by Gunn through analysis hero mode journey this fiction. The driving force process subverting people’s spirit having no support longing for direction based development technology trying find right answer. It manifestation human panic at loss growing sense impending doom.