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Jung’s Archetypes Carl Jung a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. A contemporary of Freud. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion; archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields. The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation. Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. The Myers- Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types. Carl Jung believed that the events of nature were not simply put into fairytales and myths as a way of explaining them physically. Rather, the outer world was used to make sense of the inner. Archetypes have been expressed as myths and fairytales, and at a personal level in dreams and visions. In mythology they are called 'motifs', Humans have a religious instinct, Jung believed, whether it is a belief in God or in some secular faith like communism or atheism. “No one can escape the prejudice of being human” he observed. From: http://www.butler-bowdon.com/carl-jung-archetypes-collective-unconcious Individuation 'Individuation' is Jung's term for the point when a person is finally able to integrate the opposites within them -- their conscious and unconscious minds. Individuation simply means to become what you always were in potentia, to fulfil your unique promise. Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human development. From: http://www.butler-bowdon.com/carl-jung-archetypes-collective-unconcious Collective Unconscious Everyone has their own unique Personal Unconscious made up of suppressed and forgotten memories, traumas, etc. The Collective Unconscious is universal. It predates the individual. It is the repository of all the religious, spiritual, and mythological symbols and experiences. Humans are sort of “hard wired” to find these patterns and symbols resonant. The reading assignment called this “innate projections” that children accept without question. The Collective Unconscious’ primary structures Jung called “Archetypes” Jung stated that these archetypes were the “conceptual matrixes or patterns behind all our religious and mythological concepts, and indeed, our thinking processes in general.” Archetypes If this concept is correct, if there are archetypal ideas that are “wired into” us, it becomes easier to explain why there are so many similarities between stories over time. But what are these archetypes? How do they manifest themselves? Collective Unconscious Characters Hero, scapegoat, outcast, devil, woman, star-crossed lovers Situations Quest, task, initiation, journey, fall, death/rebirth Symbols/associations Light-darkness, water-desert, heaven-hell I’ll describe each in turn on the following slides Three types of archetypes The Hero Joseph Campbell has argued that this archetype is so well defined that the life of the protagonist can be clearly divided into a series of well- marked adventures, which strongly suggest a ritualistic pattern. Characters who exemplify this archetype to a greater or lesser extent are Oedipus, Theseus, Romulus, Perseus, Jason, Dionysos, Joseph, Moses, Elijah, Jesus Christ, Siegfried, Arthur, Robin Hood, … Character Archetypes The Hero Character Archetypes: Traditionally the protagonist of a story Often his/her past is a mystery The champion, king/queen, leader or savior of many Endures pain and sorrow that all lead to a greater good
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