Thursday, November 1, 2007
Jugian's idea of the self consists of a field of collective consciousness and a field of collective unconsciousness. Within these fields, the persona lies in the conscious and the anima-animus in the unconscious. The persona are the roles one plays in relation to other people, comprised of complexes where as the anima-animus is the archetype of life "itself". The eros principle is the (anima), and the logos principles is the(animus). It is the contrasexual bridge between the ego and unconscious resources. Furthermore, the archetypes are the universal patterns or motifs which come from the collective unconscious and are the basic content of religious, mythologies, legends, and fairy-tales. They emerge in individuals through dreams and visions. According to some, they are imperialistic, meaning they all want to be the perfect archetype, which they are ultimately competing to be the self. The self is the archetype from which all other archetypes come. It is also the archetypal basis of the ego. The ego is the central complex in the field of consciousness. A strong ego can relate objectively to activated contents of the unconscious (i.e. the complexes) rather than identifying with them, which appears as a state of possession. In Jugian's diagram, the complexes surround the ego because they are an emotionally charged group of ideas or images. At the center of a complex is a archetype or archetypal image. The ego is also connected to the shadow which is the unconscious portion of the personality characterized by traits (and or) that the conscious ego tends to ignite or reject. Finally, the four main archetypes that people have are the King, that is the ordering sense of the self to which commands and directs, the warrior, which doesn't decide what to do, it just does, the lover, which creates, and the magician, which wants to know, but doesn't necessarily want to do anything. Above all, the self is a universal being that is the archetype of the source of all. Even though it is difficult to describe, the self should be the goal. Thus, this is the advantage to this archetype.
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