Jungian archetypes

our life experiences, feelings, beliefs and impulses, are not available at a conscious level. (Cherry). Like Freud, Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was considered a great psychologist. He is the founder of Analytic Psychology, which is also known as Jungian Psychology. Jung’s most famous work “Psychology…

Psychoanalytic criticism explores the relationship between culture and the personal identity of a character and a text. It attends to the role of the subconscious in the author, reader, and characters in a text. The concept of psychoanalytic criticism identifies the state of internal experience meaning it explores how the different states may affect the external experience either positively or negatively. In basic terms, psychoanalytic criticism is the application of the ideas of psychology to…

Community-Based Dreaming for Recovery In the deepest sense, we all dream not of ourselves, but out of what lies between us and the other. – CG Jung Community-Based Dreaming is a curriculum that has been in development for some years to offer experiential dream circles within a community setting. It blends depth psychology, somatic psychotherapy, fairytale theory, and community building as part of a wider mission to infuse modern culture with imagination. Stromsted (2015) noted for thousands of…

and cultural values. The “Wife of Bath’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales creates an archetype of a woman based on her instincts and human drives, not on her capabilities. However, this tale eliminates gender roles through presenting the needs of both women and men and creates a fine line between them, demonstrating that women and men are on the same level of interests. According to Jungian psychology, an archetype is “an inherited idea or mode of thought supposed to be present…

Psychodynamic Perspective Definition: Psychodynamic approach was originally called Freud’s psychoanalysis, but in the recent years this perspective comes on a large scale with the development of Adler’s, Jung and Erikson’s theory. Both words are often intermingled with each other. Notice that psychoanalytic approach consist if only Freud’s theory but the Psychodynamic approach consist of all the four theories given by different scientists. The psychoanalytic approach is both the treatment and…

Freud also welcomed/influenced women into the psychoanalytic stance. Melanie Klien was one of the first to put emphasis on the pre-Oedipal stages (Ethan R. Plaut, 2001). Her and her partner, D. W. Winnicott, created an object–relations school to solve what they believed to be the central problem in life: finding a balance between independence and dependence on others. The way people reacted to this separation and loss is mostly determined by the first two years of our lives. A baby requires it’s…

his pocket. The narrator stated that when Bilbo found the ring it was a significant moment during the adventure, he just did not know it yet (Tolkien, The Hobbit 68). The ring is important to Bilbo’s development. The ring is Jungian symbol. The circle is a Jungian archetype that represents “self” (Matthews). The ring’s symbolism shows that Bilbo will find himself and grow on this journey. As Bilbo moved on throughout the cave he came to a pool of water. There he met Gollum. Gollum challenged…

the transference relationship. Individuals are motivated to become aware of their dysfunctional behaviors in order to develop healthy functioning. 2. Analytical Therapy Archetype is to provide the psyche as a different perception when identifying humans. Carl Jung- Jungian Dialectical method The collective unconscious and archetypes filtering from the conscious to repress the unconscious. The strengths are self-free association and the weaknesses are individuation- wholeness. The dialectical…

thoughts and feelings that are not presently a part of the conscious. The collective unconscious, containing a deeper level of unconsciousness, is expressed through emotional symbols called archetypes. The archetypes Jung describes are called animus and anima, persona and shadow, mother, and hero and demon archetypes (Butler-Bowdon,…

beliefs and values about these subjects held by a certain culture (Mark). Myths are always true psychologically, sociologically, and anthropologically. In mythology and in the study of religion and folklore, a trickster is an example of a Jungian Archetype. The trickster is characterized in a story as one who disguises themselves as something or someone else, one who plays tricks, and one who goes against normal rules, regulations, and behaviors. He has a great deal of intellect and knowledge…