Carl Jung and Archetypes

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Carl Jung and Archetypes

• The Great Pretender The Art of Passing
• Lina Medaglia-Miller, Ph.D.

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Carl Jung

• Carl Gustav Jung (German 26 July 1875 6 June
  1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential
  thinker and the founder of Analytical Psychology.

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Jung and Religion

• Jung is considered the first modern psychiatrist
  to view the human psyche as "by nature religious"
  and to make this the focus of his exploration
  (from Wiki http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung
  )

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Freud and Religion

• Freud believed religion was an expression of
  underlying psychological neuroses and distress.
  At various points in his writings, he suggested
  that religion was an attempt to control the
  Oedipal complex, a means of giving structure to
  social groups, wish fulfillment, an infantile
  delusion, and an attempt to control the outside
  world.

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Jung versus Freud
It is on this issuethe primacy of religion in
considerations of the psycheand others, that
Carl Jung and his mentor Sigmund Freud had
fundamental disagreements and an ultimate
falling-out.
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• To this day, there is a fierce competition
  between Freudians and Jungians, based on
  theoretical disagreements.

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Dreams

• Though not the first to analyze dreams, Jung is
  one of the best known researchers in the field
  of dream analysis and symbolization. 

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Eclectic Studies

• While he was a fully involved and practicing
  clinician, much of his life's work was spent
  exploring tangential areas, including Eastern and
  Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology,
  and sociology, as well as literature and the
  arts all of which were extremely productive in
  regard to the symbols and processes of the human
  psyche, found in dreams and other entries to the
  unconscious.

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Individuation

• Jung considered the process of individuation neces
  sary for a person to become whole. This is a
  psychological process of integrating the
  opposites including the conscious with the
  unconscious while still maintaining their
  relative autonomy. Individuation was the central
  concept of analytical psychology.

See Eric Pettifors explanation of Individuation
http//www.wynja.com/personality/jungarchf.html
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Jungs Model of the Psyche
See Jungs Models of the Psyche
http//www.schuelers.com/ChaosPsyche/part_1_17.ht
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Jungs Conical Model of the Psyche
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The Unconscious

• There are two types of unconscious
• the personal unconscious
• the collective unconscious

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The Personal Unconscious

• The personal unconscious contains all the stuff
  that simply isn't conscious. It contains stuff
  that can be made conscious by simple act of will,
  stuff that requires some digging, as well as
  stuff that may never be recalled to consciousness
  ever again. (Pettifor) http//www.wynja.com/person
  ality/jungarchf.html

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The Collective Unconscious

• While you participate in it, the collective
  unconscious isn't your exclusive propertywe all
  share in it. It belongs to the species. When Jung
  had his doctor hat on the collective unconscious
  was something passed on genetically like an
  edition of a book of which we each had our own
  copy.
• In more off the record materials such as letters,
  Jung seemed to possess a more spiritual
  understanding of something which we are all
  tapped into somehow (Pettifor)
  http//www.wynja.com/personality/jungarchf.html

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Archetypes

• Archetypes are innate universal psychic
  dispositions that form the foundation from which
  the basic symbols or representations
  of unconscious experience emerge. 

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Archetypes

• Archetypes are functions which give rise to
  specific motifs, as common in all mythology as in
  any individual's life. They are often discussed
  in terms of personifications which appear in
  dreams, but they can also be seen in themes of
  stories, mythological or lived. They are very
  potent as patterns of action.

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Archetypes Patterns of Action
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Archetypes and Individuation

• Archetypes articulate our charisma, and can
  facilitate what Jung called Individuation

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Archetypes as innate organs

• Jung treated the archetypes as psychological
  organs, analogous to physical ones in that both
  are morphological constructs that arose
  through evolution.

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The Five Main Archetypes

• The Self, the regulating center of the psyche and
  facilitator of individuation
• The Shadow, the opposite of the ego image, often
  containing qualities with which the ego does not
  identify, but which it possesses nonetheless
• The Anima, the feminine image in a man's
  psyche or
• The Animus, the masculine image in a woman's
  psyche
• The Persona, how we present to the world, is
  another of 'the subpersonalities, the
  complexes' and usually protects the Ego from
  negative images (acts like a mask)

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The Self

• The Self signifies the coherent whole, unified
  consciousness and unconscious of a person - 'the
  totality of the psyche'.
• Realised as the product of individuation, which
  in Jungian view is the process of integrating
  one's personality.
• Symbolised by the circle (especially when divided
  in four quadrants), the square, or the mandala.

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The Shadow

• the Shadow or "shadow aspect" is a part of
  the unconscious mind consisting
  of repressed weak- nesses, shortcomings, and
  instincts.

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The Shadow

• "Everyone carries a Shadow, and the less it is
  embodied in the individual's conscious life, the
  blacker and denser it is." 
• It may be (in part) one's link to more primitive
  animal instincts, which are superseded during
  early childhood by the conscious mind.

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The Anima

• The Anima and Animus are described by Jung as
  elements of his theory of the collective
  unconscious, a domain of the unconscious that
  transcends the personal psyche. In
  the unconscious of the male, it finds expression
  as a feminine inner personality anima

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The Animus

• Equivalently, in the unconscious of the female it
  is expressed as a masculine  inner
  personality Animus.

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The Persona

• The Persona is the social face the individual
  presented to the world - 'a kind of mask,
  designed on the one hand to make a definite
  impression upon others, and on the other to
  conceal the true nature of the individual'

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Many Archetypes

• Although archetypes can take on innumerable
  forms, there are a few particularly notable,
  recurring archetypal images

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List of Common Archetypes

• The Child
• The Hero
• The Great Mother
• The Wise old man or Sage
• The Wise Old Woman/Man
• The Trickster or Fox
• The Devil or Satan
• The Scarecrow
• The Mentor
• Rebirth

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More archetypes

• There are dozens or even hundreds more
  archetypes, depending on whom you consult.
• For a more comprehensive list of character
  archetypes, see listology.com
• http//www.listology.com/list/character-archetypes
  

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QUIZ Identify the Archetype

• What archetype(s) did Stallone use in his Rambo
  films?
• What archetype(s) are represented by Richard
  Crennas Sam Trautman character?

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QUIZ Identify the Archetype

• What archetype(s) are represented by Lucy
  Lawless Xena, Warrior Princess ?

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QUIZ Identify the Archetype

• What archetype(s) are represented by Mother
  Teresa (26 August 1910 5 September 1997) ?

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QUIZ Identify the Archetype

• What archetype(s) are represented by Samuel L.
  Jacksons Mace Windu in Star Wars Episode 1, The
  Phantom Menace ?

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QUIZ Identify the Archetype

• What archetype(s) are represented by Darth Vader
  in George Lucas Star Wars ?

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• What archetype(s) are represented by Martin
  Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 April 4,
  1968)?

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QUIZ Identify the Archetype

• What archetype(s) are represented by Elijah
  Woods Frodo in Lord of the Rings ?

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QUIZ Identify the Archetype

• What archetype(s) are represented by Sir Ian
  McKellens Gandalf in Lord of the Rings ?

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QUIZ Identify the Archetype

• What archetype(s) are represented by Oprah
  Winfrey?

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QUIZ Identify the Archetype

• What archetype(s) are represented by Mary
  Magdalene in the Bibles synoptic gospels?

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QUIZ Identify the Archetype

• What archetype(s) are represented by the Dalai
  Lama?

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References

• Wiki Archetype http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arche
  type
• Wiki Jungian Archetypes http//en.wikipedia.org/w
  iki/Jungian_archetypes
• Eric Pettifor, Individuation http//www.wynja.com
  /personality/jungarchf.html
• Jungs Archetypes http//changingminds.org/explana
  tions/identity/jung_archetypes.htm
• Kendra Cherry, Jungs Archetypes
  http//changingminds.org/explanations/identity/jun
  g_archetypes.htm
• Stefan Stenudd, Jungs Archetypes
  http//www.stenudd.com/myth/freudjung/jung-archety
  pes.htm

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Quiz