Jung stated that the religious life must be linked with the experience of the archetypes of theĬollective unconscious. We may also describe it as a universal library of human knowledge, or the sage in man, the very transcendental wisdom that guides mankind. One can not acquire this strata by education or other conscious efforts because it is innate. Is an universal datum meaning that every human being is endowed with this psychic archetype-layer since his/her birth. Thus archetypes are related to the basic functioning of our psyche. Psychic version of homeostasis, that is the ability of the body to maintain a certain equilibrium and stability. The word "compensation" refers to what Jung believes to be the Therefore a great deal of Jungian interest in psyche focuses on interpretation of dreams and symbols in order to discover the compensation induced by archetypes as marks of psyche transformation. TheĬenter is made of the conjunction of consciousness and unconscious reached through the individuation processĪrchetypes manifest themselves through archetypal images in all the cultures and religious systems, in dreams and visions. The most important of all is the Self, which is the archetype of the Center of the psychic person, his/her totality or wholeness. The religious and mystique experiences are also governed by archetypes. Birth, death, power and failure are controlledīy archetypes. Thus mother-child relationship is governed by the mother archetype.
Īrchetypes constitute the structure of the collective unconscious - they are psychic innate dispositions to experience and representīasic human behavior and specific situations. The most important of them is the archetype. Though initially Jung followed the Freudian theory of unconscious as the psychic strata formed by repressed wishes, he laterĭeveloped his own theory to include some new concepts. Was developed at the time when he was working with schizophrenic patients in Burgholzli psychiatric hospital. Concept of Collective Unconscious at Jung