This study aims to analyze the novel A Clockwork Orange, written by Anthony Burgess, along with its film adaptation with the same title directed by Stanley Kubrick. Since self-knowledge has become a significant and important issue in the modern age, the necessity of a leading thought in this field is required. Therefore, the present project begins with analyzing the most controversial ideas and theories of Carl Gustav Jung, in terms of a psychoanalytical reading of the mentioned works. Jung presents remarkable theories regarding human self-knowledge, including the theories of evil, individuation and wholeness. These theories take an important step in the world of modern psychoanalysis in connection with the knowledge and awareness of man’s both conscious and unconscious. In completing and further processing these theories, we take a glance at the works of a contemporary Jungian, Murray Stein, who works as a practicing psychoanalyst in Zurich. In addition to analyzing the concepts of Jung's psychoanalysis, Stein follows Jung’s mainstream and presents his own complementary ideas regarding the human unconscious. Inspired by Jung's theory of shadow and man’s institutionalized dark aspects, Stein does research on unconscious areas in order to further explain the idea of wholeness, which in Jung’s psychology, is the final purpose of individuation. Based on Jung and Stein’s thoughts which have been formed considering the main issues of contemporary men, the researcher focuses on a psychoanalysis approach to fulfill the aims of the present study. Furthermore, Burgess as a novelist, has paid attention to how his characters go through a change. The main issue of this project is to investigate Burgess and Kubrick’s objectives of referring to these changes and to clarify in what manners they use this dynamism to accomplish their objectives. On one hand, the novel and the film are examined through psychoanalytical intertexts and on the other hand the researcher goes through the similarities, differences and how the author and the director depict the main character’s change and his path to wholeness.
