By Carol S. Pearson — 2016
Some of the stories we live are archetypal, and thus could provide us with a greater sense of meaning, mattering, and purpose if we were aware of them.
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Campbell’s monomyth has been criticised for being Eurocentric and patriarchal. But it has a more significant problem, in that Campbell was wrong. There is not one pure archetypal story at the heart of human storytelling.
They are within you, they are within others, and they create the very foundation of human behavior. Did you know that you can actually work with archetypes to create more love, happiness, confidence, spiritual wellbeing, and Oneness?
Few people have had as much influence on modern psychology as Carl Jung; he has coined terms such as extraversion and introversion, archetypes, anima and animus, shadow, and collective unconscious, among others.
In Jungian psychology, the archetypes represent universal patterns and images that are part of the collective unconscious. Jung believed that we inherit these archetypes much in the way we inherit instinctive patterns of behavior.
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Exploring the realm of Carl Jung's collective unconscious and the archetypes that live within it.