... of Jung's major contributions to myth approach is his individuation as shadow, persona, and anima. Individuation is a psychological growing up, the process of discovering those aspects of one's self that make one an individual different from other members of the species. For Goodman Brown, his persona is both false and inflexible. Though he considers himself both the good Christian and good husband married to a "blessed angel on earth", in truth, he is much less the good man than the bad boy. His behavior from start to finish is that of the adolescent male. His desertion of his wife, "faith", for example, is motivated by his juvenile compulsion to have one last fling as a moral Peeping Tom. His failure to recognize himself when he confronts Satan, who is his shadow, is merely another indication of his spiritual immaturity. It is only fitting that his soul-image or anima should ...

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