doi:10.1080/10436929108580055RobertaPh.D.K.Ph.D.RigsbyPh.D.InformaworldLit Literature Interpretation Theory
Narrativepsychotherapyis the practice of using an individual’s personal life journey to help him or her break negative patterns. This kind of therapy is based on thetheorythat everyone has a personal story, or narrative, which contains the details of why they are depressed, socially awkward, co...
Why is archetypal criticism used? The job of archetypal criticism is to identify those mythic elements that give a work of literature this deeper resonance. By their universality, myths seem essential to human culture. However, many modern folks view myths as mere fables, expressing ancient forms...
this therapeutic symbolism would expand to include mandalas (expressions of the ‘the specific centre of the personality’) and UFOs (a fantasy that swapped heaven for interstellar space). To ignore these powerful archetypal symbols was, in Jung’s mind, ‘to rob the individual of his roots and...
Archetypally and archetypically are adverbs describing something done in a manner that relates to archetypes. Archetypally is the preferred and more commonly used form.
A structural layer of the human psyche containing inherited elements, distinct from thepersonalunconscious. (See alsoarchetypeandarchetypal image.) The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind’s evolution, born anew in the brain structure of every individual. [“The Struct...
This experience is related to the shaman’s descent to the underworld as well as the archetypal journey of the wounded healer. See ProgrammedBut we have to remember that having a personality with self awareness is a very new thing and has only existed for a short time. Before that we were...
While spiders themselves are not gender-specific, some interpretations might consider the spider as a symbol of feminine energy or the archetypal feminine due to their association with creation, weaving, and the home. This is particularly true in cultures where spiders are linked to feminine deities...
This incident proves that so-called 'religious conservatives' are neither moral nor worthy of any attention whatsoever, except perhaps in collegiate psychology textbooks as archetypal examples of pathological liars. Now for the official statement, taken directly from the Dodgeville web site, calling O'...
behind these diverse and contradictory symbols, the archetypal meaning which is in human psychology itself, as Dr. Jung has recently reminded us. Just as Professor Einstein looks beyond the diverse and contradictory instrument readings for the abstract mathematical relationships that translate one coordina...