Carl Jung

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A youngish Jung in 1909.

Carl Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychologist who believed that people in all cultures throughout the world are all similar when it comes to mythology and myth-making, and that these mythologies are ultimately the "human story." Jung also believed that all humanity shares these myths as part of our "collective unconscious," and nobody can escape them.

Trained as a psychiatrist and active in the newly developing Freudian schools of thought, he believed that our dreams could tell us not just about our personal experiences, but about those of our culture and our humanity. He believed that religion is necessary to any and all psychological development, and that it is only through our religion that we can grow into what we as humans have the potential to become.

[edit] Examples of Archetypes

  • The Hero (or later clarified as The Hero's Journey) archetype claims that all men must "travel" in some respect, physical or mental, to some place, real or imagined, in order to grow up to be a man and leave the home.
  • Femme Fatales
  • Forbidden Fruit
  • The Child All cultures through out the world have myths that involve children and innocence, and generally the loss of innocence.
  • The Divine Couple. God and a human couple.

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