Book contents
- Frontmatter
- New developments in the post-Jungian field
- Part I Jung’s Ideas and their Context
- Part II Analytical Psychology in Practice
- 5 The classical Jungian school
- 6 The archetypal school
- 7 The developmental school
- 8 Transference and countertransference
- 9 Me and my anima: through the dark glass of the Jungian/Freudian interface
- 10 The case of Joan: classical, archetypal, and developmental approaches
- Part III Analytical Psychology in Society
- Index
6 - The archetypal school
from Part II - Analytical Psychology in Practice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 June 2008
- Frontmatter
- New developments in the post-Jungian field
- Part I Jung’s Ideas and their Context
- Part II Analytical Psychology in Practice
- 5 The classical Jungian school
- 6 The archetypal school
- 7 The developmental school
- 8 Transference and countertransference
- 9 Me and my anima: through the dark glass of the Jungian/Freudian interface
- 10 The case of Joan: classical, archetypal, and developmental approaches
- Part III Analytical Psychology in Society
- Index
Summary
Although Jung named his school of thought “analytical psychology,” he might with equal justification have called it “archetypal psychology.” No other term is more basic to Jungian analysis than “archetype”; yet no other term has been the source of so much definitional confusion. Part of the reason is that Jung defined “archetype” in different ways at different times. Sometimes, he spoke of archetypes as if they were images. Sometimes, he distinguished more precisely between archetypes as unconscious forms devoid of any specific content and archetypal images as the conscious contents of those forms. Both Freud and Jung acknowledged the existence of archetypes, which Freud called phylogenetic “schemata” (1918/1955), or phylogenetic “prototypes” (1927/1961). Philosophically, Freud and Jung were neo-Kantian structuralists who believed that hereditary categories of the psyche imaginatively inform human experience in typical or schematic ways. Freud (1918/1955) alludes to Kant when he says that the phylogenetic schemata are comparable to “the categories of philosophy” because they “are concerned with the business of 'placing' the impressions derived fromactual experience.” He states that the Oedipus complex is “one of them” - evidently one among many - “the best known” of the schemata.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Jung , pp. 107 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008
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