Archetypes (Other 4)

great mother

men or women's preexisting concept of mother

great mother

always associated with both positive and negative feelings

power and destruction / fertility and nourishment

great mother's 2 opposing forces < (2/)

fertility and nourishment

great mother's forces:

capable of producing and sustaining life

power and destruction

great mother's forces:

devour or neglect her offspring

great mother

its evidence is the strong fascination that mother has for both men and women, often in the absence of a close personal relationship

power and destruction

great mother's forces:

symbolized as a godmother, the Mother of God, Mother Nature, Mother Earth, a stepmother, or a witch

fertility and nourishment

great mother's forces:

symbolized by a tree, garden, plowed field, sea, heaven, home, country, church, and hollow objects

rebirth

its concept formed from combining fertility and power

rebirth

represented by such processes as reincarnation, baptism, resurrection, and individuation or self-realization

wise old man

archetype of wisdom and meaning

wise old man

symbolizes humans' preexisting knowledge of the mysteries of life

wise old man

archetypal meaning is unconscious and cannot be directly experienced by a single individual

wise old man

domimay gather a large following of disciples by using verbiage that sounds profound but that really makes little sensenated:

wise old man

personified in dreams as father, grandfather, teacher, philosopher, guru, doctor, or priest

appears in fairy tales as the king, the sage, or the magician who comes to the aid of the troubled protagonist and, through superior wisdom, he helps the protagonist escape from myriad misadventures

wise old man

symbolized by life itself

hero

represented in mythology and legends as a powerful person who fights against great odds to conquer or vanquish evil in the form of dragons, monsters, serpents, or demons

hero

often is undone by some seemingly insignificant person or event

hero

its deeds can only be performed by someone who is vulnerable

hero

demonstrated by our fascination with the heroes of movies, novels, plays, and television programs

hero

origin of its motif goes back to the earliest human history (dawn of consciousness)

hero

symbolically overcoming the darkness of prehuman unconsciousness

hero

achievement of CONSCIOUSNESS was one of our ancestors' greatest accomplishments

self

innate disposition and inherited tendency to move toward growth, perfection, and completion

self

most comprehensive of all archetypes

self

archetype of archetypes

self

pulls together the other archetypes and unites them in a certain process

self-realization

process of uniting all the other archetypes

self

mostly formed by collective unconscious images

self

symbolized by a person's ideas of perfection, completion, and wholeness

mandala

self's ultimate symbol

mandala

depicted as a circle within a square, a square within a circle, or any other concentric figure

mandala

resents the strivings of the collective unconscious for unity, balance, and wholeness

self

appears as an ideal personality

self

taking the form of Jesus Christ, Buddha, Krishna, or other deified figures