JUNGIAN ARCHETYPES
The Language of the Collective Unconscious
“The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure—be it a daemon, a human being, or a process—that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure…In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history…”
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist most well-known for his theories of personal and collective unconscious and extraversion and introversion.
Jung believed that the human psyche, or the body, mind and soul, was made up of three parts—the ego, the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. It’s the collective unconscious where the Jungian archetypes reside.