What's it called when characters in a novel go into a jungle,

>>8895022
seeking onesself?
shamansim? such as what they would do after there dutys in the tribe are fullfild they would go into the jungle to find ones spirit animal or such things and that would be there 'initiation'

somthing like that?

>>8895022
It's called "the author being a tripey hack".

WE WUZ syndrome

This pic looks comfy I wanna do that desu

>>8895022
Green World trope. See Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism.

>>8895022
>going south
Maybe it's just an euphemism for going down on someone.

"Return to nature"
"Rousseauist"
"Edenic"
"Anabasis"
"Atavistic"

Don't go into the jungle, guys, don't go. Never. Trust me.

>>8895269
>>8896235
i mean it more in a negative way, as in they don't go out to learn about themselves, instead they exit civilization symbolically

>>8896673
Wolverine

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>>8895022

>>8895022
Off the top of my head:

Nebuchadnezzar
Green Man
Going Native
Wild Man

>>8896744
(-:

>>8895022
interracial

"i read a jung book once"

Why are you even searching a name for it?

>>8896888
it'll help me look up more about it i think and help me to undersstand it better
its like on the tip of my tongue

but maybe there is no word specifically for it, it's just a type of metaphor or symbolism or w/e

>>8895022
>go south

yeah nothing like spending time with the indigenous peoples here in nashville