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Myths are full of archetypical symbolic conceptions.
Chinese charater for myth

myth : archetype

archetype is defined as:

an original model or type after which other similar things are patterned

inherited pattern of thought expressed through symbolic imagery derived from
the past collective instinctual experience - present in the individual subconscious

the plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs
are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.



Archetypes are beneath elementary ideas, they could be called 'ground' ideas.

These ideas Carl Jung spoke of as archetypes of the subconscious.

Archetypes is the better term because elementary idea suggests conscious thought.

Archetypes of the subconscious come from deep within.

The difference between the Jungian archetypes of the subconscious and Freud's complexes is that the archetypes of the subconscious are biologically based manifestations of the organs of the body and their glandular powers.

Archetypes are biologically grounded, whereas the Freudian subconscious is a collection of repressed traumatic experiences from the individual's lifetime. The Freudian subconscious is a personal subconscious, individually biographic.

The Jungian archetypes of the subconscious are biologically based.

All over the Earth and at different times of human history, these archetypes, ground ideas, have appeared in different guises. The differences of appearance are the results of environmental and historical conditions, the alien nature of socially and or culturally different people.

To learn more about human nature the anthropologist identifies and compares cultural and social simularities and differences between social and cultural groups.


-adapted from thePower of Myth, interview of Joseph Campbell, mythologist, by Bill Moyers, journalist.


Also see Joseph Campbell on:

in the beginning

image

myth

life

consciousness

metaphor

mystery

the serpent

religion

dream time

hero

God

The Law of God

God's Natural Law

Empathy for life is what separates humankind from the rest of the animal kingdom.

Myths are full of archetypical symbolic conceptions.
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