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FREE THE ARCHETYPES AND THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS PDF Carl Jung | 52 pages | 01 Dec 2013 | Important Books | 9788087888681 | English | United States Jung's CW 9i: Archetypes & the Collective Unconscious Email Address:. The Swiss Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung was responsible for popularising and The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious the study and concept of the Collective Unconscious. Jung believed that each of us have our own Personal The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious wherein resides all knowledge and memories of our personal experiences in our current life. Below the Personal Conscious he placed the Personal Unconscious. The Personal Unconscious contains memories that we have either forgotten or repressed The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious that are particular to the individual. This information is not easily accessed and we are not readily aware of it. If some of those memories were painful or traumatic they become split off from conscious recall. The conscious then represses them and forbids them access or recall. They remain trapped and The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious up in the deepest prison cells of the subconscious. However, even though these memories The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious incidents cannot The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious recalled they can exert their own impact and impression by manifesting as symptoms or neurosis in the individual. The individual will have no The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious of the underlying cause or root origin of these symptoms as the memory of it has been repressed. They know, but they just do not know that they know. Through meditation and hypnosis forgotten or repressed memories can be brought to light often for therapeutic The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. The Tarot cards can also reveal through their imagery such repressions. Outside of our Personal Conscious and Unconscious we have the Super Conscious where our Higher Self resides along with the records of our Past Lives and all we have learned. Great wisdom, peace, love and understanding can be accessed from our The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious Conscious and Higher Self through the Subconscious. The Super Conscious is also our connection with the Divine and again can be accessed through deep meditation and hypnosis. Information and advice from our Super Conscious is transmitted to our Conscious via our Subconscious. If that was not enough to get our minds around, Jung also believed that there was another Unconscious Realman Unconscious that we inherited from birth. He believed that below the The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious Unconscious lay the Collective Unconscious which housed the records of the evolution of mankind since the dawn of time. These records are not personal to any particular individual yet belong to all and connect all. Jung believed that each and every one of us can access the Collective Unconscious for information or inspiration and that each and every one of us also contributes to its growing pool of knowledge and memories. The Collective Unconscious is made up of Archetypes and Symbols. Many believe that we tap into the Collective Unconscious when we dream. Hall and Vernon J. Archetypes are patterns of behaviour that repeat themselves over and over again and for every situation in life there is an Archetype or Archetypal Behaviour associated with it. As humans evolve we continue to add Archetypes to the Collective Unconscious. Examples of Archetypes are found everywhere and anywhere humans exist and The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious constantly to be found expressing themselves in books, movies and plays etc along within our own environment, relationships and social circles. Still confused? Then take for example the Hero Archetype. Think of how many times we see this Archetypal Figure expressed in movies and books. Everyone loves a hero and if asked to visualise a typical hero, we can easily conjure up any number of hero types e. Superman and Batman. They spend their whole life protecting us from the villains another archetype and saving the world from ultimate disaster every week. These are larger than life heroes but they set the pattern of idea in our psyche as to what a hero ultimately is and what the hero or heroine needs to aspire to. Your idea of a hero might be different from mine. It might be the selfless fire fighter who risks his life to save the life of a child as he forces his way through a burning building as all his colleagues try to stop him. Nevertheless, he The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious still living up to the Archetypal idea of a hero. The Archetypal Hero of old would have been the Robin Hood type character. Robin Hood stole from the rich to give to the poor. He was hated by the aristocracy the villains yet loved by the poor innocent victims. As a Hero he had to contend with sword fights, bow and arrows, bareback horse-riding and the daily danger of being hung at the gallows. Today, the Archetypal Heroes have to deal with high-powered rifles, rocket attacks, nuclear weapons, psychotic serial killers, terrorists, corrupt governments or law enforcement agencies, hanging from the side of a helicopter and even computers that have started to think for themselves. The Hero Archetype has come a long way since the days of Robin Hood and even Robin The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious would have been based on an earlier version of a Hero. The Original Archetypal Hero would go back to primitive times. As mankind evolved, so too did our idea of the Hero. What the Hero did from then on was to become a representation of the original Archetype. The same applies to all Archetypes. Therefore an image of Robin Hood compared to an image of Superman will still represent the Hero Archetype. Even though they are worlds and centuries apart we have little or no problem recognising them as Heroes. When we see an image or picture depicting a Hero or Archetypal Heroic Situationa story and visuals immediately begin to form. The Tarot is full of Archetypes and Archetypal images. It is by getting to grips with the nature of Archetypes, their impact on us and our psyche, that we will understand what the cards are trying to tell us. Take for instance the 5 of Swords in the Minor Arcana. Depicted in this card is the Archetypal Bully. The person who is used to getting their own way through intimidation, force The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious threat. The imagery expresses this Archetypal Behaviour and therefore when we see this card appear in a spread it will have an immediate impact on both the reader and the querant. This The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious because the querant is identifying with an Archetype or Archetypal Situation depicted in the card. The querant is The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious the Collective Unconscious. You as the reader must add to this and make any necessary connections so that a trend or story begins to form. We all have an idea or experience of what a bully is and so know one when we see one, which is what we see when we look at the 5 of Swords. The imagery depicted in the Tarot cards is not just art for art sake. The picture will be depicting an Archetype or Archetypal Situationwhich we will all respond to. Different cultures or races however, may have their own particular Archetypes but generally as the human race we will agree on most of them. Now slowly go through the cards in search of both Archetypes and Archetypal Situations in their imagery. Do they remind you of people you know or something that you have experienced? In your mind form a story about each Archetype or Archetypal Situationsimilar to the way I summed up the Archetype and Archetypal Situation in the 5 of Swords. This exercise will assist you in associating personal experiences and knowledge to the cards when reading. It also helps develop your storytelling techniques. When it comes to the Symbols associated with the Collective Unconscious we must also familiarise ourselves with another way of looking at the imagery of the Tarot. We must learn to open our eyes and use our minds in many creative ways. The meaning of the Symbols we see throughout the Tarot can change and shift from one reading to the next. For one querant we may see the offer of the Cup to the disinterested figure sitting on the ground in the 4 of Cups as someone offering you something; an opportunity or perhaps a relationship, friendship or offer of help that you are unaware of as you or not paying attention, are disinterested or are too bored to care. For another querant the same card may find the Cup being offered this time as his or her boozing buddies trying to encourage overindulgence while the figure works hard to ignore them. You have to be flexible with Symbols as they are known to be shape-shifters. What we see today in the cards we may not see tomorrow. The querant may also symbolically see something in a card that you do not as it corresponds to something that is going on in their life or connected to their issue. What they see may have no bearing on the traditional associations or meaning of the card but is just as important and relevant. Asking your querant if any cards jump out at them or have particular meaning to them can result in some interesting results. This can often help open a card reading or overcome a block while reading. When this happens it is best to accept that the card is not for your interpretation.