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Jungian archetypes
Carl Jung created the archetypes which are ancient or archaic images that derive from the collective unconscious [1] Also known as innate universal psychic dispositions that form the substrate from which the basic symbols or representations of unconscious experience emerge. These are different from instinct as Jung saw an instinct as an unconscious physical impulse toward actions and the archetype as the psychic counterpart [2] There are many different archetypes and Jung has stated they are limitless in amount, but to simplify many have broken it down into a few main ones. These include the persona, the shadow, the anima, the animus, the great mother, the wise old man, the hero, and the self. [3] . The great mother, wise old man and the hero tend to be considered add on from the basic as in Jungs map of the soul everything is covered, but those. The archetypes can be used for a sense of understanding as well as for a state of treatment[4] [5] [6] [7] "The archetype is a tendency to form such representations of a motif - representations that can vary a great deal in detail without losing their basic pattern ... They are indeed an instinctive trend".[8] Thus for example "the archetype of initiation is strongly activated to provide a meaningful transition ... with a 'rite of passage' from one stage of life to the next": [9] [10] such stages may include being parented, initiation, courtship, marriage and preparation for death.[11]
Introduction
Virtually alone among the depth psychologists of the twentieth century, Jung rejected the tabula rasa theory of human psychological development, believing instead that evolutionary pressures have individual predestinations manifested in archetypes. For Jung, "the archetype is the introspectively recognizable form of a priori psychic orderedness".[12] These images must be thought of as lacking in solid content, hence as unconscious. They only acquire solidity, influence, and eventual consciousness in the encounter with empirical facts."[13] The archetypes form a dynamic substratum common to all humanity, upon the foundation of which each individual builds his own experience of life, developing a unique array of psychological characteristics. Thus, while archetypes themselves may be conceived as a relative few innate nebulous forms, from these may arise innumerable images, symbols and patterns of behavior. While the emerging images and forms are apprehended consciously, the archetypes which inform them are elementary structures which are unconscious and impossible to apprehend. Being unconscious, the existence of archetypes can only be deduced indirectly by examining behavior, images, art, myths, and religions etc. They are inherited potentials which are actualized when they enter consciousness as images or manifest in behavior on interaction with the outside world. The archetype is a crucial Jungian concept. Its significance to analytical psychology has been likened to that of gravity for Newtonian physics.[14]
Chronology
The intuition that there was more to the psyche than individual experience possibly began in Jung's childhood. The very first dream he could remember was that of an underground phallic god. His researches in schizophrenia later supported his early intuition that universal psychic structures exist which underlie all human experience and behavior. Jung first referred to these as "primordial images" a term he borrowed from Jacob Burckhardt. Later in 1917 Jung called them "dominants of the collective unconscious." It was not until 1919 that he first used the term "archetypes" in an essay titled "Instinct and the Unconscious". A main part of the chronology of Jung's discovery of the archetypes is found in the Redbook which documented Jung being in touch with the archetypes and collective unconsciousness which was released much after his death. [15] Throughout ]Jung's life examination into the archetypes increased, and this was noticeable throughout the changes within his style of writing in his books.
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Origins
Jung being in touch with his unconscious during his middle age and discovered the archetypes when he became to see the figures in his dreams and see the figures within his daily life. It wasn't until his later life though when he became to understand these actually meant and begin to piece them together through archetypes. [16] These times were covered within the Red Book, [17] and thesymbols that the archetypes represented and their origins in detail could be found within a Man and His Symbols. In here he stated that the achetypes have always existed and will always exist and part of the collective unconscious [18] It is sometimes assumed that people are creating new archetypes, but they are not actually being created but discovered, and the number of archetypes in the world are limitless. Archetypes are found within dreams, and it is found within life itself. Finding new archetypes is a matter of searching deep within one's self to discover them. The origins of the archetypal hypothesis date back as far as Plato. Jung himself compared archetypes to Platonic (eidos). Plato's ideas were pure mental forms, that were imprinted in the soul before it was born into the world. They were collective in the sense that they embodied the fundamental characteristics of a thing rather than its specific peculiarities. In fact many of Jung's Ideas were prevalent in Athenian philosophy. The archetype theory can be seen as a psychological equivalent to the philosophical idea of forms and particulars
Jungian archetypes self; Jung makes this very clear. The self is also the part that heavily grows and changes as a person goes throughout life. [29] The self can be simply summed up as the ideal form a person wishes to be. [30] The Shadow, This represents the traits that lie deep within ourselves. The traits that are hidden from day to day life and are in some cases the opposite of the self is a simple way to state these traits. The shadow is a very important trait because for one to truly know themselves the must know all, including what lies beneath the common, the shadow. If one chooses to know the shadow there is a chance they give into its motivation. [31] The Anima, Some see the anima is the feminine side or form of a man, but Jung did not fully intend this to be viewed in this way. The Anima is beyond generalization of society's views and stereotypes. Anima represents what femininity truly represents it in all it's mysteries. It is what allows a man to be in touch with a woman. [32] The anima is commonly represented within dreams as a method to communicate with a person. [33] It contains all of female encounters with men to help the relationship between the to improve better. The Animus]] Animus, is similar to the anima except for the fact the the animus allows a female to understand and communicate with a man. [34] Just like the anima it is commonly represented in dreams of a female to help them understand themselves and relationships with men [35] It can be known as part of the collective unconscious connection with all of the encounters of males with females, like the anima, to improve relationship with males and females. The PersonaThe Persona, to Jung is a mere "functional complex ... by no means identical to the individuality",[15] the way we present to the world - a mask which protects the Ego from negative images, and which by post-Jungians is sometimes considered an "archetype ... as a dynamic/structural component of the psyche".[16] Some view this is as the opposite of the shadow which is not entirely true this is just the face that is put on for the world not our deepest internal secrets and desires, that is the self. [36] However the precise relationships between images such as, for example, "the fish" and its archetype were not adequately explained by Jung. Here the image of the fish is not strictly speaking an archetype. However the "archetype of the fish" points to the ubiquitous existence of an innate "fish archetype" which gives rise to the fish image. In clarifying the contentious statement that fish archetypes are universal, Anthony Stevens explains that the archetype-as-such is at once an innate predisposition to form such an image and a preparation to encounter and respond appropriately to the creature per se. This would explain the existence of snake and spider phobias, for example, in people living in urban environments where they have never encountered either creature.[37] There are many examples such as the fish covered in Man and His Symbols and how they tend to relate to people through measures such as dreams and little life instances. These archetypal figures can also be represented from the main archetypes such as the anima and the animus or archetypal thoughts such as the resurrection of a savior. figures[38] For example almost every culture has a savior that has came back from heaven or the dead, or reincarnation being a main point of the belief. Jesus for example in the Christian texts and Buddhists and Hindu have reincarnation as a principle part of their religion. These being principle parts of the religion, in which many religions
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Psychoid archetype
Jung proposed that the archetype had a dual nature: it exists both in the psyche and in the world at large. He called this non-psychic aspect of the archetype the "psychoid" archetype. He illustrated this by drawing on the analogy of the electromagnetic spectrum. The part of the spectrum which is visible to us corresponds to the conscious aspects of the archetype. The invisible infra-red end of the spectrum corresponds to the unconscious biological aspects of the archetype that merges with its chemical and physical conditions.[39] He suggested that not only do the archetypal structures govern the behavior of all living organisms, but that they were contiguous with structures controlling the behavior of inorganic matter as well. The archetype was not merely a psychic entity, but more fundamentally, a bridge to matter in general.[40] Jung used the term unus mundus to describe the unitary reality which he believed underlay all manifest phenomena. He conceived archetypes to be the mediators of the unus mundus, organizing not only ideas in the psyche, but also the fundamental principles of matter and energy in the physical world. It was this psychoid aspect of the archetype that so impressed Nobel laureate physicist Wolfgang Pauli. Embracing Jung's concept, Pauli believed that the archetype provided a link between physical events and the mind of the scientist who studied them. In doing so he echoed the position adopted by German astronomer Johannes Kepler. Thus the archetypes which ordered our perceptions and ideas are themselves the product of an objective order which transcends both the human mind and the external world.[37]
General developments
Related concepts arguably include the work of Claude Lvi-Strauss, an advocate of structuralism in anthropology, the concept of "social instincts" proposed by Charles Darwin, the "faculties" of Henri Bergson and the isomorphs of gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Kohler. In 1965 Noam Chomsky's ideas of human language acquisition being based on an "innate acquisition device" became known to the world. Melanie Klein's idea of unconscious phantasy is closely related to Jung's archetype, as both are composed of image and affect and are a-priori patternings of psyche whose contents are built from experience.
Archetypal pedagogy
Archetypal pedagogy was developed by Clifford Mayes. Mayes' work also aims at promoting what he calls archetypal reflectivity in teachers; this is a means of encouraging teachers to examine and work with psychodynamic issues, images, and assumptions as those factors affect their pedagogical practices.
Jungian archetypes artists, poets, philosophers, alchemists, and psychologists include: Nietzsche, Henry Corbin, Keats, Shelley, Petrarch, and Paracelsus. Though all different in their theories and psychologies, they appear to be unified by their common concern for the psychethe soul. Many archetypes have been used in treatment of psychological illnesses. Jung's first research was done with schizophrenics. A current example is teaching young men or boys archetypes through using picture books to help with the development. [42] In addition nurses treat patients through the use of archetypes. [43] Archetype therapy offers a wide range of uses if applied correctly, and it is still being expanded in Jungian schools today. With the list of archetypes being endless the healing possibilities are vast.
Jungian archetypes More general criticism of the concept of archetypes can perhaps be placed in two broad categories. There are those who deny any possibility of inherited ideas as unscientific - a point met (at least to some degree) by Jung when he insisted that it was instead the inherited propensity to generate representations that made the archetypes "the unconscious organizers of our ideas"[48] (see above). But those who could accept such inherited propensities still found "a basic ambiguity in Jung's various descriptions of the collective unconscious. Sometimes he seems to regard the predisposition to experience certain images as understandable in terms of some genetic model ... about the way human beings experience the world. But he is also at pains to emphasize the numinous quality of these experience and there can be no doubt that he was attracted to the idea that the archetypes afford evidence of communion with some divine or world mind".[49] Jung's last statements on that subject remained however firmly agnostic. "Many people would agree with me if I stated flatly that such ideas are probably illusions ... [but] the denial is as impossible to 'prove' as the assertion".[50] A more technical objection derives from therapeutic practice, with the possibility arising that "an explanation of the archetypal situation ... may lead to inflation, if it is not linked to specific and personal emotional experiences".[51] Some would go further, arguing that because "in Jungian theory, the psychologist's task is to lead others to see the timeless archetypal reality behind their personal psychological experiences ... using abstract, archetypal forces to explain human psychology", the result must inevitably be "a psychology which downplays the significance of human relationships".[52] The patient is thus brought to realise that "what I did then, what I felt then, is only the reflection of that great archetypal dream, or epic story ... free of the individual pain of it", but at the price of individuality and human relationship, sacrificed for an unwillingness to "leave the safety of myth".[53]
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Further reading
Stevens, Anthony (2006), "Chapter 3", in Papadopoulos, Renos, The Handbook of Jungian Psychology Jung, C. G. (1917, 1928), Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, Collected Works, 7 (2 ed.), London: Routledge (published 1966) Jung, C. G. (19341954), The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious, Collected Works, 9 (2 ed.), Princeton, NJ: Bollingen (published 1981), ISBN0-691-01833-2
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