Archetypal

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Jung believed that we each have a personal

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unconscious, and a collective unconscious

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Personal unconscious is

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individual’s ideas.

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Collective unconscious is universal images and ideas

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we hold from birth.

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Collective
Unconscious:
Archetypes

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In myths across the globe, there are figures that appear to hold the same meaning ex. mother, father, the hero, the maiden, the wise old man, the trickster
Jung calls these common figures archetypes (universal symbols)

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Jung believed this common knowledge or archetypes was hardwired in our brains to help us

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understand the world and our relationship to other people

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jung also believed everyone’s conscious included the following:

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Persona
Anima/Animus
The Shadow

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Archetype:Persona
The mask or facade that one exhibits

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publicly, with the intention of presenting a favourable impression so society will accept him/her

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Archetype:Anima & Animus

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The “inward” face of one’s personality that represents the other gender

For men it’s the anima and for women it’s the animus

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Archetype:
The Shadow

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The shadow is the “animal” nature within us and it is powerful, instinctive, and spontaneous

It is often associated with the evil within us

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was a Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields.

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Jung (1875-1961),

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Departs from Freud in that the emphasis is not on the individual unconscious

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but on the collective unconscious
Describes human psyche as being divided into 3 parts: a personal conscious, a personal unconscious, and, beneath these, a collective unconscious, a storehouse of knowledge, experiences, and images shared by the human race, and regarded as the repository of memories, images and patterns of experiences called archetypes

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Literature is a conversation between texts and readers

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must notice the patterns within a text and the patterns within many texts.

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An archetype is a

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character, theme, plot or symbol that seems to be used in many different stories, from various times and place; an original pattern or model

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When studying literature through the archetypal lens, consider the

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characters and the plot structure

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Modern archetypal literary criticism is partly based in the ideas of psychologist

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Carl Jung (pronounced Yung).

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Jung believed that the repeating patterns of similar characters, themes, plots and symbols throughout history and across various cultures were a result of a

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“collective unconscious” in which all human beings somehow shared and assumes that there is a collection of symbols, images, characters, and motifs (i.e. archetypes) that evokes basically the same response in all people.

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For Jung this explains how similar myths developed among groups

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of people that had no known contact with each other and also explains why they remain important to storytellers to the present day.