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The Collective Unconscious and Archetypes
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Carl Jung
- Initially a Freudian follower
- Split from Freud and developed his own approach, now called Jungian psychology
- Developed the theory of the collective unconscious
Archetypes
Archetypes in Art and Literature
Images
Character Archetypes
Collective Unconscious
- Archetypes are "symbols, signs, patterns of behavior, and thinking and experiencing that are physically inherited from our ancestors" (Adamski).
- Two ways to approach archetypes:
- One way to trace archetypes is through art and literature across different cultures and time periods
- The personal archetypes of each individual
- Gardens: paradise
- Circles: wholeness, unity
- Water: rebirth
- Sun: passage of time
- Rising: birth, life
- Setting: death, end
- Full presence: enlightenment
- Hero
- Example: Oedipus, Jean Valjean
- Scapegoat
- Example: Jesus Christ, "The Lottery"
- Mother
- Example: Ma Joad, Mrs. Weasley
- Trickster:
- Example: Swiper, The Serpent
Situations
"a part of the unconscious mind incorporating patterns of memories, instincts, and experiences common to all mankind. These patterns are inherited, may be arranged into archetypes, and are observable through their effects on dreams, behavior, etc"
-TheFreeDictionary
Quote
- Quest
- Examples: LOTR, Frankenstein
- Death and Rebirth
- Examples: Harry Potter
"The collective unconscious - so far as we can say anything about it at all - appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious... We can therefore study the collective unconscious in two ways, either in mythology or in the analysis of the individual."
-Carl Jung
Works Cited
Individual Archetypes
Adamski, Adam. "Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious." NeuroQuantology 5.3 (2011): 563-71. Web. 16 May 2016.
Barger, Robert N. "A Summary of Lawrence Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development." Csudh.edu. University of Notre Dame, 2000. Web. 16 May 2016.
""Collective Unconcsious"" The Free Dictionary. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 May 2016.
"Concept of Collective Unconscious at Jung." Carl Jung Resources. Carl Jung Resources, 2015. Web. 16 May 2016.
Dobie, Anne B. Theory Into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism. 4th ed. Samford: Cengage Learning, 2015. Print.
"The Jungian Model of the Psyche | Journal Psyche." Journal Psyche RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 May 2016.
- Like Freud, Jung separated the human psych into three parts
- Persona: public "mask"
- Shadow: dark, negative side
- Anima: sexual identity
- Anima (feminine side) in a man
- Animus (masculine side) in a woman