Last time I wrote that the experiences in my relationship to the three most important women in my life, at least it has long looked like they were, actually a product and a result of a archetype And that there may be a lot of men with similar experiences. The word archetype originates from the ancient Greek, where "arche" means "old" or "original" or "type" of "s" or "model" or "model" is an old pattern. What exactly is an archetype and how could it be so powerful?
Especially pioneer, founder and scientist in contemporary psychology Carl Gustaf Jung has studied and tried to describe this, based among other things on experiences with many patients in his forty-year analytical practice in Switzerland. According to Jung who has also compiled a huge private library with all kinds of manuscripts and portfolios, an archetype is part of a structure, also called the collective unconscious, an a priori, so to speak, within which it facilitates the possibility of an image. Think of Plato's cave. That image can bring and evoke intense emotions. Often this happens as a compensation for a unilateral psychological activity with the aim of correcting it. This happens regardless of the human will, as long as the latter already has a chance.
In dreams, myths and fairy tales, old patterns occur independently of time, place, culture and race. There is evidence that there have been developments throughout the world in different times and continents, which could not have taken place apart from each other, as there was no Internet linking the whole world 2000 years ago. There was something else, the collective unconscious, that has developed and expanded over the years and centuries. It's our psychic legacy as humanity. The archetypes, which are part of the same subconscious, are empty molds, which can be filled with an image and then live and are usually projected outside of their own psyche. A good example is the anima, the female soul of the man (animus with the woman) that he projects young on his mother and later often on other women around him. This can get quite out of hand when this leads to the idealization of a woman, for example, who has provoked an intense interest in her, also called being in love. She consequently gets an enchanting, attractive, fascinating, but at the same time terrifying greatness, as if she were a queen, a goddess, which, however, often turns into the opposite. The mould then flows full of images related to the idea, resulting in emotions and experiences and for true experiences, which can reinforce each other. An obsession is born, but with it also a dependence and an addiction.
In dreams, myths and fairy tales, old patterns occur independently of time, place, culture and race. There is evidence that there have been developments throughout the world in different times and continents, which could not have taken place apart from each other, as there was no Internet linking the whole world 2000 years ago. There was something else, the collective unconscious, that has developed and expanded over the years and centuries. It's our psychic legacy as humanity. The archetypes, which are part of the same subconscious, are empty molds, which can be filled with an image and then live and are usually projected outside of their own psyche. A good example is the anima, the female soul of the man (animus with the woman) that he projects young on his mother and later often on other women around him. This can get quite out of hand when this leads to the idealization of a woman, for example, who has provoked an intense interest in her, also called being in love. She consequently gets an enchanting, attractive, fascinating, but at the same time terrifying greatness, as if she were a queen, a goddess, which, however, often turns into the opposite. The mould then flows full of images related to the idea, resulting in emotions and experiences and for true experiences, which can reinforce each other. An obsession is born, but with it also a dependence and an addiction.
