jung's archetypes and modern mythology
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A look at Jung's classic archetypes and their relation to antique and modern mythology.Feel free to use this for personal or educational purposes. :-)TRANSCRIPT
Jung’s collective unconscious and
mythology.
Do myths reflect the collective unconscious?
Archetypes
To make the point clearer...
...let’s take a closer look at the hero archetype!
What is
the hero archetype
?
Good Question.
“The [hero is] the mana
personality. He represents the ego, and is often engaged in
fighting the shadow,
in the form of dragons and other monsters.”
-Dr. C. George Boeree,Shippensburg University
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Let’s take the examples of
Spiderman and Hercules.
Spiderman
• Protects
• Saves
• Fights evil, both in the form of physical
monsters...
• ...and evils in his own personality.
First appeared as a comic character in 1962.First cartoon in 1967.
Blockbuster film released in 2002.
Hercules
• Saves
• Protects
• Fights evil, mostly dangerous, malevolent monsters
Hero from ancient Greek mythology
Well hey!
They both match Jung’s Hero archetype
characteristics pretty well, don’t they?
This suggests that...
The archetypes expressed in
ancient mythology and
modern popular storytelling are very similar.
If archetypes are part of
mythology, which is in turn a
reflection of the collective unconscious...
Does this mean that the collective unconscious
is present in all storytelling, from
ancient mythology to the modern myths?
Seems so.
If you still have trouble understanding...
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