Jungian archetypes

Mass-mediated experience always involves selective construction and representation, since what is seen is the result of the actions and decisions of professionals as to what is significant and how it should be presented. Thus, national or cultural trauma always engages a ‘meaning struggle,’ a grappling with an event that involves identifying the ‘nature of the pain, the nature of the victim and the attribution of responsibility’ . . . this is the ‘trauma process,’ when the collective experience…

into common archetypes (Edinger 1968). Knowing this I developed an interest in identifying this archetypal patterns in stories myself and will forward this interest by identifying archetypes in the Wole Soyinka play, Death and the King’s Horseman. I have gathered three sources that I will use to help me do so, a website, a scholarly article, and a magazine article. Each one of these sources has its own strengths and weaknesses. The magazine article gave great insight on the archetype of the…

A Jungian Psychoanalytic Approach to Zeus’s Defeat of Cronus Since the Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung founded a series of analytical psychology theories first introducing the concept of “personal unconscious”, “collective unconscious” and “archetype” in 1953, an advanced Jungian psychoanalytic approach has been extensively applied to the interpretation of Art, literature and Greek myth. This essay will argue that Zeus’s behavior of defeating his father Cronus was…

feelings. He viewed a dream’s manifest content (the apparent and remembered storyline) as a censored, symbolic version of its latent content, the unconscious drives and wishes that would be threatening if expressed directly” (Myers, 2015, pg.113). Jungian…

unconscious material, which leads to labeling of archetypes and symbols. Jung believed, “Archetypes are pathways from the collective unconscious to the conscious, which may lead to an action” (2012, p. 88). The archetypes of personality are persona, meaning mask, anima and animus represent quality of the opposite sex, shadow is the unacceptable personal impulses, and self is the energy. Symbols are the content and outward expression of archetypes. Jung amplified the meaning of symbols in…

Based on Jung’s personality theory, people are conceived with predispositions due to the racial and cultural history of their ancestors (Hall & Gardner, 1957). These inclinations help in guiding future behaviors and are altered based on different experiences that a person may encounter. Therefore, people are born as wholes or at least partially complete with regards to their personality, yet this wholeness is something that an individual has to work on for the duration of their life since it…

individuated person is an individual in the truest sense of the term and exists independently of social role. This process of individuation comes with an increased overall sense of well-being and purpose. Individuation is the main goal of Jungian psychology. Although Jungian psychotherapy can deal with health issues, the main goal is individuation. Much like the Freudian approach, the therapist is a guide to the patient. Unlike the Freudian approach, there is emphasis beyond medical purposes.…

The world’s most influential psychologist is without a doubt Sigmund Freud. While Freud’s original concepts are not in use today, Freud is the father of modern psychology. Nonetheless there is a psychologist greater than Freud. Carl Gustav Jung. The inspiration for the New Age and the Catholics, the introverts and extraverts, and the individual and the collective a like. Carl Jung’s theories encompassed the idea that the individual be compelled to become more self-actualized and more in touch…

“the work actually refers to the activity of stenography in its depicting of a female stenographer directed by a male figure.” During his time with his analyst, Pollock experimented with Jungian motifs and reflected upon their meaning to explore psychoanalysis and its correlation to art. According to Jungian theories, “the collective unconscious, like the personal unconscious, influences human behavior. The collective unconscious is deeply ingrained in the minds of all humans and it is…

The following paper will examine two instrumental therapeutic approaches from a Jungian perspective. The first is the use of drawings in play therapy and the second is metaphors and how they can be applied and useful in a therapeutic context. Jungian Approach to Therapy Jung presented an analytical approach to counselling based on psychodynamic schools of thought rooted in the dependence of unconscious processes in psychological functioning, symbolic interpretations and indirect methods of…