By Psychologist World Team
Exploring the realm of Carl Jung's collective unconscious and the archetypes that live within it.
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CLEAR ALL
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.
We need to integrate our unconscious contrasexual nature, or we haven't become all we can be.
We are all a divine amalgamation of water and fire, soul and spirit, yin and yang. Ultimately, when we narrow everything down within us, we see that we contain two energies: that of the feminine and masculine.
It goes as follows: Man skids into midlife and loses his soul. Man goes looking for soul. After a lot of instructive hardship and adventure — taking place entirely in his head — he finds it again. The book tells the story of Jung trying to face down his own demons as they emerged from the shadows.