Carl Jung - What are the Archetypes?

In this video we investigate what Carl Jung called archetypes, explaining what they are, how they influence our lives, their relationship to symbols, and their connection to religious experiences.
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Recommended Reading:
The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious - Carl Jung - amzn.to/2kHxK4B (affiliate link)
The Myth of Meaning in the Work of C. G. Jung - Aniela Jaffe - amzn.to/2kuFoyc (affiliate link)
The Origins and History of Consciousness - Erich Neumann - amzn.to/2kuG32E (affiliate link)
Ego and Archetype - Edward Edinger - amzn.to/2kQl8KJ (affiliate link)
The Creation of Consciousness: Jung's Myth for Modern Man - Edward Edinger - amzn.to/2kHGsiW (affiliate link)

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Become a Supporting Member and get access to exclusive videos: academyofideas.com/members/ =========== Recommended Reading: The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious - Carl Jung - amzn.to/2kHxK4B (affiliate link) The Myth of Meaning in the Work of C. G. Jung - Aniela Jaffe - amzn.to/2kuFoyc (affiliate link) The Origins and History of Consciousness - Erich Neumann - amzn.to/2kuG32E (affiliate link) Ego and Archetype - Edward Edinger - amzn.to/2kQl8KJ (affiliate link) The Creation of Consciousness: Jung's Myth for Modern Man - Edward Edinger - amzn.to/2kHGsiW (affiliate link)

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[@drpebbs]

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[@bobstone3386]

Only thank man. Man created that god of yours that gives you comfort as well.

[@nickolasgaspar9660]

do you know that this "information" does not meet the demarcation criteria.....it doesn't agree with our latest knowledge on how nature works....thus its a pseudo philosophical practice to promote such ideas?

[@k.b.lucero2899]

Same here!

[@0i0l0o]

@@bobstone3386 acording to this video, Jung would not agree with you. besides, i am fascinated how atheist are alwas so willing to impose their opinion on others, while often ppl of faith when they hear some1s atheist, just move on without any comment "if it works for you, God bless you". i do not understand where that need comes from. and the most improtant thing, it always has at least a small dose of malevolence. relax, enjoy your life. its funny how things turned around in few decades.

[@properpsychology1276]

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” “There's no coming to consciousness without pain.” “Like plants, so men also grow, some in the light, others in the shadows. There are many who need the shadows and not the light.” “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” “To be "normal" is a splendid ideal for the unsuccessful.” “If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.” “Where your fear is, there is your task.” -Carl Jung

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Tx for sharing

[@jaimeporteous-hz1tg]

Love this!

[@lukestella1]

I have a crush on his daughter Kitty.

[@cw2611]

Thank you for sharing these quotes.

[@megenberg8]

you have included 7 quotes by the professor. may i give a pointer for each? 1. trust your higher judgment. 2. take a rest and recoup, as often as needed. 3. sometimes the sun becomes too hot & the shade too deep - seek a more favorable situation. 4. know that we have a world to come, of life eternal w/ time for every dream. 5. to be normal is fine, no matter what. 6. if the path is clear it's because no one is on it. 7. if you fear, disengaging COULD BE a step in the right direction. personally, I'd start looking for the exit!

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[@donblack1571]

TRu BLu since you found them from now you’ll begin to notice them more easily.

[@nikdrown]

It’s amazing when you find the heights of the intelligence hierarchy beyond the name calling foolishness at the bottom. Some people might take offense to the truth if there is a hierarchy of sorts. There is. If you notice some of the simplest lifestyle people can be the most enlightened and some of the richest in wealth can be depleted. It has nothing to do with wealth and poor. Humbleness and arrogance more so.

[@nikdrown]

Don Antonio I definitely do. It has turned my view of hating people (in truth loving them) but my frustration to ignorant and society as a whole was the reason for that. Strange times we live in indeed but I am glad to not have that hate in my heart truly anymore.

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The algorithm detects archetypes and suggests such videos to the ones that aren’t very excited by pointless hate I guess 😄

[@agggg3524]

Archetypes are ancient memes humans have wired deep into their brains.

[@sadkeannu]

This is the video's entire message in one comment

[@nickolasgaspar9660]

You do understand that the idea of archetypes and Analytical psychology is not part of the science of Psychology...right? Do you understand the value of the criteria of Demarcation?

[@eve36368]

Basically. These days we might call these religious tropes.

[@eve36368]

Nickolas Gaspar I know Freud was a fraud scientist, would've been a great literature professor & that we only study his scam ass because he came up with the valuable idea of the unconscious & because he screwed over so many people yet gave psychology more visibility. I also know Jung was a student of Freud's.

[@nickolasgaspar9660]

@@eve36368 Well try taking an academic course in psychology. You will see that most of Freud's hypotheses have gain traction based on modern empirical discoveries. This is because Freud's ideas were speculations, but they were falsifiable (not all of course). Jung's ideas on archetypes are unfalsifiable. This is what separates the work of those two men. So I think that the label "fraud" is irrelevant when it comes to Freud.

[@joerogaine7984]

My childhood friend was always a normal kid. His interests were sports, video games, and working out. When we were 18 we started using drugs. We frequently abused weed, coke, and adderall. His personality began to change. Then we did lsd. He loved it so much, that one night he took 6 tabs alone. He ended up stripping his clothes, and run into the streets shouting gibberish. He was arrested and diagnosed with schizophrenia and autism. During this time, he lived with me for 6 months. He was never an artsy person but all of a sudden he was really into music, drawing, and movies. He lost 50 lbs of muscle and was skinny. I was cleaning out his room when he moved out. He left a notebook. Inside were BEAUTIFUL artwork of religous symbolism that were dated back to our lsd days. Insane for a guy who never was into that stuff. Collective consciousness maybe?

[@yanikeonpurpose]

No. He LOST consciousness. Earthly consciousness. He lost his grounding & connection to his mental body & gained greater access to the higher realms. Art & all that stuff exists in other realms- some people just have a higher propensity to access them like artists. This is why they end up consuming so much drugs. Drugs gives you greater access to those realms. I hope he’s ok now. Take him to a Shaman. His mental body needs to be reattached to his physical body & his soul blown back into his body. An entity has most likely has those parts & will not return it unless there is an intervention.

[@yanikeonpurpose]

Rappin Devour ... says someone I’ve never met a day in my life. Why would a person you’ve never met listen to anything you have to say????? Are you ok? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Who needs to go to the shrink,-you or me?

[@lunargixx6867]

Stay away from drugs

[@MandenTV]

Joe Rogaine Don't mess with drugs that aren't prescribed to you by a professional lol. It's not unheard for people to have a psychotic episode due to drug use and destroy their mind forever without pharmaceutical intervention.

[@lenplummer9333]

Cool results but what a cost. Hope ur friend is ok.

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I can think of a better use

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Yeah, no shit. "Best?" Come on, people, don't be dumbasses.

[@siegfriedpintar]

Maybe not the best, but certainly better than using it as a sheer form of entertainment. It's as if people don't even comprehend the vast volume of knowledge available today.

[@Kube_Dog]

That's very true and well put.

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Nah nigga the best use of the internet is pornhub don’t @ me 😤

[@Obtaineudaimonia]

This is a great introduction to some of Jung's ideas.

[@zuyialwuris9279]

Eudaimonia Carl Jung's " identical psychic structures common to all" may alignment to the Islamic concept called 'Fitra'.

[@rwheels6471]

Yah this channel is great for finding things to study up on

[@peterribolli8300]

Daniel Andersson : interesting. Who to believe, is the perplexing question?

[@TigersTalons]

Klaa2 I like that! Lol

[@blaise4468]

Sohel Qureshi you’re missing the whole point. Yes that quote might line up with some sort of Islamic version of this idea, but like Jung was saying; this way of thinking is already an archetype within the mind of us all. There are other names for it in many cultures / religions it doesn’t mean Islam is the sole truth.

[@jamaljohnson9734]

That last quote is a beauty.

[@kevinbill9574]

I actually thought it should say; "As far as we can discern, the purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness *by* mere being"

[@ORaddlyispissedoff]

Kevin Bill then you misunderstand, because mere being is unconsciousness it would be rather counterproductive for him to build up that consciousness is mankind's destiny and end that with "humanity must merely exist" to fulfill it

[@kevinbill9574]

ORaddlyispissedoff but our mere being would not be unconsciousness because consciousness is inherent to who we are

[@christopherd1356]

Actually I think Kevin Bill's version is better, and for lack of a better word, Jung was full of shit. Actually he probably said what he said in German. The interpretation here sounds like the mouthings of a snobby intellectual. lol. Actually I love Jung, I just think he shouldn't be taken too seriously.

[@ORaddlyispissedoff]

Christopher D then what the hell's the point of your comment? Jung here wasn't trying to be poetic or anything, he was expounding a theory so this isn't about how nice it sounds but what sense it makes. If he says by mere being he trashes what he was saying previously, the unconscious is the natural state, expanding the reaches of consciousness to shed a light into unconsciousness requires more than just being, any other conclusion is meaningless sophistry

[@barniespacullie3812]

Jung is literally my overall opinion on the entire realm of the unknown. It's crazy how I really had these ideas when I was young, and I simply just lacked the words to describe what i felt dictates our perceived existence

[@roflswamp6]

I feel the same with Nietzsche

[@Commielover69]

And your mind was thwarted by others fearing you'd look dumb

[@bull1234]

"True knowledge is not knowing. Presuming to know is a disease."

[@c.s.70]

To your first part: If that is the case, How do you know that is true? Logically it self-contradicts.

[@Jardarny]

​@@c.s.70 That's a great point. I think that the solution to that paradox is that there are actually two different meanings of "know" in the original sentence. Let me try to explain (my view of the issue): We can call one "True knowledge" or just "knowledge", and the other "belief". Knowledge where one doesn't use thought in order to know. Thus, just to point that out, it becomes very difficult to talk about, so just try to bear with me. An example of this is the fact of existence. How do you know you exist? If you are going to find out whether you exist or not, do you depend on logical reasoning, or can you just sort of check? So in short, all direct, sensory experiences are knowledge. When you eat an orange, you "know" the taste of the orange. When you see a tree, you "know" the visual experience of "tree". The other kind of knowledge is based on thought. For example if I ask you your age, your name, the capital of Assyria, what you consider the best university in the UK, and so on. It is not really direct knowledge as described above, but sort of second-hand knowledge. None of these things you can really 100% "know". There could have been an error in the time of your birth certificate, for example. So in the latter case, what you really "know" is that you have a thought telling you something. Then you believe or don't believe that thought. So in that way, the latter case is actually a belief. In contrast, when you taste an orange, the experience of orange-taste is not a matter of belief. You "know" it, intimately. When you start to explore this, you might come to see that so much of what you believe to be true, i.e. what you think you know, actually is just belief, and that your reasons for believing them may be much weaker than you originally believed. You might also find that when looking at the world in this way, you start to see it more directly, not filtered through your beliefs and opinions about whatever you're interacting with. So the world becomes more and more a mysterious kind of unknowable "it is just what it is" experience, which it actually always was - it was just that we believed we knew what it is! Then you might start saying things like "True knowledge is not knowing".

[@c.s.70]

@@Jardarny Thank you man for taking all that time to clarify! I guess I was being too literal. I was apprehensive that it would be a version of what I consider a prevalent disease of postmodern relativism with the premise that nothing can be known nonsense disguised as ancient wisdom or interpreted as such. There are certain limitations and vagaries with language in communicating complex meanings that I struggle with, I crave for NDE like telepathic downloads (Highly recommend Overwatchproject youtube channel regarding nature of reality). Yes, agreed, I think Einstein said something similar along the lines of 'only idiots are incapable of wonder' (albeit in less flattering phrasing). Appreciate your explanation and clear breakdown with examples. Very clear. You have a gift breaking down semantics and concepts into their clear components. Have you considered teaching? Not necessarily in the traditional prison school sense, but bits of it like in youtube or blog, etc.? There's a lot of confusion in semantics and false premises out there that many take for granted. Anyways, thanks and have a great day!

[@Jardarny]

​@@c.s.70 Glad I could be of help. And I really appreciate the positive feedback! As a matter of fact I just started my own business as a meditation teacher this year :)

[@alison2161]

Anthony Salvatore well said

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Channels like this one are priceless. Respect. I wrote "Channel's", it really is the Apocalypse.

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Dude, you killed it with this video! Thanks for breaking it down. I definitely grasp these concepts tighter now.

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[@aristotle358]

I remember learning about this some years ago. I read Jung's book (among others) called "Psychology and Religion". This video is a very good representation and well put together.

[@tiav1104]

Jung poses really good arguments for astrology. I recommend researching about it, the cosmology and archetypes in astrology really inspire a lot of jung’s arguments

[@a.d.marshall2748]

That's because he was a superstitious demoniac idiot.

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@@a.d.marshall2748 you don’t have to agree with him but you can respect the impact he’s made

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I am sad about the impact he made. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmivZ3eQgKmXaM0

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I love this man and his work just as much as the late great Carl Sagan. The aquisition of knowledge to help understand the workings behind our inner and outer universe. Mad love

[@devine_noise]

I've just started exploring Jung's work though Ego and Archetype. Thank you for making this video.

[@Vishinskyscritic]

Wow, this is brilliant, I was just writing an essay on Jungian psychology and religious experience but tbh had no real understanding of how they linked but this really cleared everything up. Great video!

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Wow. Quite possibly the very best use of the KZbin platform- sharing important information in brief, easy to follow and understand essays. Much respect and gratitude to you!

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Agreed.

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i'm glad i found this channel! finally a channel which explains interesting philosophical/pscyhological etc concepts

[@diedertspijkerboer]

This is a clear explanation of Jung's ideas, thank you. My thought about the archetypes is that the term is a bit confusing because it is used to describe two different things: the "organs" in the mind and the stories to which we respond. I would suggest that there's a kind of lock and key mechanism at play. The archetypical stories are the keys to the locks in our mind. The locks in our mind respond to the stories with something like satisfaction or interest, whereas we don't enjoy or get bored by stories that don't have the keys.

[@thereisnosanctuary6184]

Very nice elaboration.

[@wildmeadows8495]

By this analysis, is music then also included as a key?

[@diedertspijkerboer]

@@wildmeadows8495 yes

[@dr.bilalnazir]

This is very informative, and you explain it with eloquence, thank you and keep up the good work.

[@pistolen87]

I love how you pick artwork that represents what you're trying to communicate. Some artwork that I've seen before, I now see with new eyes and with greater depth.

[@Fr33Zone]

yes. they matched symbols and meaning so good.

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I love what your channel is about and it is definitely helping me become a better person!!

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The flow, the material selection, the visuals... Everything is very well done! Thank you for this!

[@chriscyrelestil304]

The 3 conscious realms of psyche were like the mystical experiences per dosage when taking psychedelic substance, the collective unconscious being the experiences shared by people which is evident. On high doses like 3g mushroom, where we all see fractals, mandalas, archetypal symbols and entities, we also gain wisdoms and realizations. This experiences are also shared by people taking high doses.

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Thank you for your video, it was really useful, especially the way it develops, how you make a chain of ideas nicely put together.Keep up the good work. Best wishes.

[@buffy377]

I’ll be listening to this lecture several times and taking notes? Thank you for your commentary.

[@Goralyna123]

Beautifully put. I really enjoyed being educated in such a simple but intelligent way. Thank you 🙏

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Thanks for the essay, Really helpful. Cheers

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As always loved your videos as it introduces the viewer to new and different ideas from famous and unknown people. Keep it up.

[@strengthodyssey7235]

Thank you for posting this clear introductory video of Carl Jung's Archetypes.

[@ComradeGoose]

wow! I learned about Carl Jung close to 10 years ago in an AP Psych class but I just shrugged him off after the class ended. THIS video has really sparked an interest of him in me! Thank you for that!!!

[@mythosandlogos]

This is the most clear and concise explanation of Jung I’ve heard. Well done! This explanation is definitely going to help me in this mythology project. Thank you.

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[@nickolasgaspar9660]

you need to elevate your standards of evidence....A random claim in a video about a discredited philosophical interpretation of a psychologist should never be accepted as knowledge. You should first investigate why this is not accepted as a scientific framework and then declare it as "knowledge", if it does qualify as such. Knowledge are claims which we can act upon and produce further knowledge....I am sure that a magical explanation like this doesn't meet this role.

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This stuff is deep and wide, and worth every minute of a first, second and third look.

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Thanks for putting this together. Very comprehensive and informative.

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I keep coming across your videos seperate from the fact that i am subscribed to you. Fantastic channel and video as always.

[@POKERFACEpro]

I now understand how influential this was for Joseph Campbell's monomyth

[@waggishsagacity7947]

Jung was, without a doubt, a genius with a brilliant mind. Listening to the exposé about the archetypes is not an easy task; it cannot absorbed (much less, applied) after one hearing; and is worth exploring, even for the sheer intellectual depth & challenge it presents. Thanks for the upload.

[@AI-ch3if]

Jung was misled and deceived, and if you want to know the truth about him, I suggest you go watch Pastor Dave Hunt's exposes on psychology.

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Thank you Academy of Ideas...very well presented!

[@TheDoodlingDino]

Thank you; this is the clearest I've heard this explained.

Gratidão!!! Thank you for this, I have been "circumambulating" this topic, with the videos of Jordan Peterson, and this was a large step to bring a whole lot of knowledge from around me right to my center. Thank you!

[@Creepzza]

Becoming more conscious is the meaning of life? Never thought of it that way, very interesting. Thanks for all your golden content, recommend this channel to all my philosophy/psychology-interested friends.

[@moony77]

Yeah, raising from 3D to 5D age of Aquarius 💛

[@melanieohara6941]

Wow, this video helps me so much to collate the symbols I hold dear and what their underlying meaning is for my life. Thank you!🙋🏼‍♀️💞🌟

[@nemashaw4761]

OMG the implication of Jung's description for me is EPIC .I am connecting and unraveling meaning in symbols and word formulations that is key to my effectiveness to have any degree of success going as a poet and an artist!

[@TilveranWrites]

Some interesting points there, thanks. Major archetypes evidently break down into subcomponents, which isn't something I'd really articulated to myself before. The gods in polytheist cultures are archetypal and it's interesting to meditate upon their domains and how they interlink. It does feel a bit like untangling metaphysical spaghetti in the dark though.

[@opinionday0079]

No one ever seems to give enough Examples of Archetypes for my denseness.

[@JK-pu8jt]

Look at the major arcana of the tarot. There are 22 of them there.

[@robin-vt1qj]

@@JK-pu8jt It all makes sense now...

[@The22Walli]

Not exactly examples but the images help a lot www.soulcraft.co/essays/the_12_common_archetypes.html

[@SuperDachshund]

OpinionDay007 Father, mother, child, old man, anima (woman in man), animus (man in woman), shadow, trickster, self, gate keeper, Oracle, and of course hero. There are also archetypal images like cross, equals, swirl (swastika forwards and reverse), dot, arrow, circle, triangle, etc. And archetypal sounds. Think of the coolest grooviest blues beats or jazz or swing. Think of the tunes and rhythms that reach down inside of you and pull out the caveman/woman knowing that people across the world and throughout time have the same experience you have. Think Bo Diddly and the west African beats he discovered and put into his own music. THAT’S archetypal! These are not the only examples. Many others. It’s a viable subject for research. For instance, I would submit the sword and the gun as archetypal symbols. See Star Wars (light saber) and The Dark Tower (gun as protector) for examples.

[@headlights4395]

One example would be the young hero who must battle a monster, descend into the underworld, and eventually sacrifice himself to the greater good: Gilgamesh, Siegfried, and Beowulf, so distant in time and space, are perfect symbols. The dragon and the treasure he guards, and the Wise Old Man and Wise Old Woman, who explain the world and guide us, are others.

[@Wingedmagician]

This has to be one of my favorite videos on youtube wow

[@Andreas-yt9wv]

Great introduction, good overview, well spoken and concise.

[@Jaccobtw]

I think that last quote has some very, very, profound implications.

[@YeIIowWood]

Love this video, thank you for uploading 🙏

[@kennethroark917]

Excellent!! I am grateful! You made me understand the meaning of Archetype!

[@ryukshinigami13]

I think Mayan, hindu, ancient egyptian, and buddhist symbols and art styles are archetypal and buried somewhere within our collective unconscious. I've spent years in the deep end of psychedelic exploration, and from the very beginning I would see the symbols, art, and hieroglyphics of those ancient cultures whenever I would trip hard enough to fully dissociate from reality. Sure, the argument could be put forward that merely being made manifest in my hallucinations isn't necessarily indicative of me tapping into some collective unconscious, wherein these images reside. Rather, the counter argument suggests that my mind produced said images, because they were already producible within my memory, given my previous awareness of them. My rebuttal to that then is this: Having made the observation and acknowledged that while yes, I was able to recognize some for what the were because of my prior familiarity, other images, unknown in origin, accompanied their more recognizable companions. Some I would not recognize as such until much later, when I would happen across something I saw in a trip while reading or watching a documentary. I'm not alone either, I know a lot of psychonauts who have seen the symbology too, as well as the same kind of unknown symbology, whose meaning and origin were discovered only after the fact. In a Chicken or the Egg-like scenario, these images seem to produce themselves deep within our collective unconscious, without any attached definition or meaning giving any hint as to their purpose. They're simply there, waiting to be conjured up in the mind of the individual able to dive deep enough into their psyche to see them.

[@covenawhite4855]

I think Archetypes can be explained by most of humanity having similar life experience with Cultural, Technological, and Economic variations. So when people deal with similar problems OR have similar Successes OR observe similar phenomenon in nature they have similar ideas.

[@tiberiu_nicolae]

Yes but there's definitely brain structures/physiology that also makes the human experience hunan

[@angelo8516]

I like how such an important subject matter as human consciousness was addressed in this vid. It touched on the metaphysical at some points!✨ Very interesting explanation. Thanks for posting!👍✌🕊

[@chris432t6]

The last line sums it up beautifully. Thank you.

[@CharlesMiner]

A wise man once said that we exist in 3 levels: conscious, sub conscious and super conscious. The spirit is life, the mind is the builder and the physical is the result - Edgar cayce

[@howardjamespatterson4119]

Or four Jagrat , svapna , sushupti , turiya, ( literal , dreaming , deep sleep , and the beyond maybe samadhi ? the true witness ? moksha ? ) just a taste of Eastern philosophy. Jung is a tremendous influence in any enlightened process of psychology .

[@cockycookie1]

We consist of a bunch of synapses bundled together in certain ways. That's all there is. Sorry.

[@roseo9177]

I love Edgar Cayce

[@jhinthevirtuoso4886]

Just like jungs theory of typology and the four sides of the mind.

[@billballinger5622]

@@cockycookie1 maybe when you overcome your identification with a bundle of snypases you can open your eyes to the greater possibilities

[@nikolasburley649]

Great point and metaphor at the end about light. It explains plainly our existential goal. I love that Christ calls himself the light, fits right in 💯

[@AAscension]

This is a very good introduction into the concepts of archetypes. My compliments.

[@carlamurphy7541]

I love this channel I love how the information is given in a way non academic people like myself can understand

[@bobstone3386]

"He asks questions that you didn't even think to ask" Why does there seem to be a pattern in religious symbols? "And here's the solution" Collective Unconscious *off the charts*

[@realmma5212]

and though I'm the main addressee shut up

[@uberskank1424]

Based

[@robertosvrahimis3304]

And here’s the solution: culture

[@cockycookie1]

Because there are things happening all over the world, like thunder/solar eclipses, or needs in all civilisations, like a higher power that gives life meaning. That's where all these nature or fatherly deities come from.

[@PappyMandarine]

If you haven't been to the depths of Mementos it will be hard to understand the Collective Unconscious. Seriously, this is gold made into a video. For those commenting on the lack of examples or concrete meaning as to the archetypes, I have an advice. Check out the major arcanas of the tarot cards, each one represents an archetype, though of course this is not based on Jung's theory and therefore major differences in the definition of this term can be found. Some "archetypes" are values (like Justice, Strength, Temperance), some are personal figures (like the Emperor, the Mother, the Self etc.), and some are highly symbolic events in life (like Death, or the major switch of intellectual perspective, or an initiation to a school of thought or religion etc.). Forget about the divination element, and keep an open mind while studying symbols. Also visually the cards are quite beautiful and very rich in symbols.

[@roflswamp6]

Also Study the zodiac signs !

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ayyyy persona 5!

[@villainoir]

I read the book 'Jung and Tarot: The Archetypal Journey' and it's amazing! Also there's an oracle deck based on the archetype by Caroline Myss. Since Jung himself spoke a lot about symbolism, learning through the images has been helpful for me.

[@alison2161]

Nameless ! Love your perspective

[@PanicAttackRecovery]

Great synopsis on the archetypes - thank you!

[@dburgessnotburger]

Awesome channel, very knowledgeable, and well-researched. Subscribed.

[@waldonunez8311]

Gracias , hasta ahora , tenía ciertas dificultades con el entendimiento sobre el significado de los arquetipos , sin embargo , pareciera que en los mitos se revelan ciertos patrones que encauzan la conducta humana dándole un significado existencial..... desde Sudamérica gracias por poner subtítulos en español...🌈🌴

[@jakewilliams9811]

I know this is an older video and may not get a reply, but in regards to the end where Jung states that we should endeavor to expand our conscious mind, could it be argued that a ‘super intelligent mind’ is one that has expanded its consciousness to encompass 80% of the mind or more, rather than 20 or 30? One of the many reasons I love psychology! Thanks for the video!

[@diegoalvarado1771]

Really thankful you created these videos!

[@deedni42]

Thank you I am learning so much from videos like yours. I hope you have a great day..

[@RF-no5rc]

NOTE HOW this and most videos never go into the specific archetypes themselves. That's because the knowledge of the hidden is contained within their mandala.

[@imantssafronovs9245]

What do you mean by "their mandala"?

[@seamus9305]

It was a revelation when I realised in my thirties how we dream of archetypal images. The divine child, anima/animus, the wise old man, the great mother, the shadow, etc, and how I've been dreaming of them all my life.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

Not to offend outright, but as food for thought... Speak for yourself, Seamus. I'm a lucid dreamer, so I get to dream pretty much whatever I like and wherever I like... It hasn't been a difficult achievement to gain repetitive cognitive capacity at it, in my experience... BUT of course, I can only speak to my own experience. Symbols? Archetypal images... not so much... Most of the time, the cigar is still just a cigar. (in my dreams at least) ;o)

[@Kube_Dog]

Seamus, you dumbass. Almost nobody dreams like that. You may be dreaming about things you read or think about in your waking life, because otherwise you're severely fucked up.

[@alison2161]

Seamus you are not alone. Many of us do. Many like you.

[@alison2161]

Kube Dog stay asleep. No one is trying to waken the dead over here.

[@210406samantha]

@@alison2161 @Seamus I have them too and that's what brought me here (not the other way around). I share the experience of dreaming about the archetypes

[@artandminisbyvilma8116]

Thank you for this video. Very well explained. It helps a lot.

[@lloyddarbon5034]

Not quite what I was looking for, but so glad I found it. Thank you.

[@mohammadabushindi6739]

Thank you for the valuable information, can you post more videos about the Jungian Psychology?! I have already watched all the videos related to this subject but can you post more?!

[@academyofideas]

Yes we will definitely be posting more on the ideas of Jung.

[@Kube_Dog]

Do something about the archetype known as "low-IQ, inbred terrorist."

[@davooddar7057]

You are a bigot mate, that is what you are.

[@neonpop80]

Wow! This is incredible and is my story in the last year when in a moment I opened my eyes and started changing my beliefs in so many ways. As a staunch atheist to seeing reality in symbols. I see the whole world when seen this way is more holistic and it holds a higher meaning that we are unconscious of. And yes, our purpose is to bring light into this collective unconscious we seem to come from and interact with. Its all there as either information that needs manifestation through expansion of consciousness.

[@rominahashemi7959]

I'm so glad that I find this channel

[@arbaazfarooqi3572]

no opinions no agenda just pure information and knowledge...loved the video!!!

[@rubirina3727]

With relation to the very last quote, I came across some verses from the Quran which talks about bringing a person out of darkness towards light. And in relation to the Quran, there's a strange thing that came to my notice. It responds to an increased consciousness in a way no book ever did to me in the course of a natural or acquired mental growth over time. It almost felt like the activation of parts of a comprehending disk lying deep inside the realm of previously inaccessible unconsciousness; and those activated parts have now moved on and 'pressed upward' to adjust with as well as expand i.e. update the level of consciousness.

[@carolzaher2655]

I wish I could've met Carl! One of the greatest minds ever ❤️

[@jasonmitchell5219]

Wow, that last phase was beautifully put.

[@paulsteinph.d.8869]

All your overviews of Jung's analytic work are Excellent..!!

[@SidSirius]

We know a lot about consciousness, we know nothing about how the unconscious connects with the self. Nor what it exactly is. That's why we cannot fix the damage that is done to a sick brain. Our science is obsessed with studying what can be seen and totally ignores studying forces structures and the unseen. We must learn that everything is connected with everything else. That all is relative perspective experienced through duality

[@azaleaslight7243]

Dr Joe Dispenza goes beyond others, check him out as he does what your asking for 🙌

[@designerelise]

@@johnlawrence2757 "no-one is good to the extent of being effective as protection against negativity." I don't think there is any amount of good that could counter-balance negativity, rather neither good nor bad in any extent can protect against randomness, the variability always at play.

[@decap008]

Nice but I was kinda hoping for a list of archetypes / symbols. Given the title of this video. The self was explained, the shadow was not, the meaning of the sun eater was not. I will look elsewhere for a list.

[@libraryofthemind]

lol, the sun eater!

[@MansSuperPower]

I just supported your channel through Paypal. Thank you for your great work. Your content is intellectual, concise, and understandable. Keep up the good work. Thank you.

[@academyofideas]

I appreciate it. Thank you.

[@MansSuperPower]

You’re welcome. You deserve it. There’s more to come. Your work is the kind of work that deserves monetary support.

[@newfound_glory]

Wow, nice final quote. Especially hearing it at 11:11 am.

[@donmowen1978]

There was not very much mentioned on the actual archetypes and examples given.

[@Spacet1mer]

Jung himself doesn't clearly define what they are. He just proposed that there are archetypes based on his observations.

[@dahvoun3918]

Like Jung said, archetypes are similar to physical organs, but they can not be observed physically like our organs. They can only be observed through our similar correlated use of signs of symbolism.

[@Chief244]

We cannot observe the archetypes directs. Perhaps this means we cannot become conscious of these. Yet again, maybe we can?

[@nickolasgaspar9660]

Because its not an accepted concept and Analytical psychology is not part of modern Psychology. Is in the realm of Pseudo claims.

[@martialkintu2035]

Yeah, I expected that to but I can't say I'm disappointed.

[@miguelpereira9859]

I often dream of dark, tight underground spaces, sometimes with water, or of really high places, like dizzying high, and sometimes the combination of both. Also I had a dream about me and some other person fighting for balance on top of a stick/narrow platform. Another theme in my dreams is often giants, colossi or really big entities, and me running away from them. Do you think any of this has to do with this theory of the collective unconscious?

[@josephfarrar1089]

These all seem to be more expressions of your day to day. running from problems etc.

[@sidquatrine]

This Can Get Rather Complex Rather Quickly, However This Video Explains It In A Comprehensible An Concise Manner, Thank You

[@johnsmith928]

that quote at the end is amazing.

[@ilikestarsun]

Explains why people experience God when on DMT, it's the symbol for the Self, for the Brahman within , the mystery of the source, the witness

[@DhilipNexus]

True I saw it when on DMT

[@jeanb322]

isn't it why we are created in his image, they get to understand him within themselves. A totality of understanding.

[@nsjx]

intriguing, isn't it

[@chriscyrelestil304]

Finally found a comment that I can relate, the 3 conscious realms of psyche were like experiences per dosage/level when taking psychedelic substance, the collective unconscious being the experiences shared by people which is evident. On high doses like 3g mushroom, where we all see fractals, mandalas, archetypal symbols and entities, we also gain wisdoms and realizations. This experiences are also shared by people taking high doses.

[@ashurbanipul]

Is the collective unconscious comprised solely of the archetypes, or does other stuff lurk there as well?

[@steelgila]

Dang good question Ashurbanipal. Does seem kinda mono-dimensional in a way.

[@projectmalus]

I can think of perhaps two other things, one that lurks and one raison d'etre: the first I will present as a thought experiment and a possible source of negative emotions. Keep in mind that emotions are body states registered by nerves and translated by the brain into emotions and then into feelings. Say that our feeling of hunger is misinterpreted, that it isn't an actual need for food but is part of a healing mechanism of the body. When the stomach is empty, the body sets to work as a self healing mechanism and we get this unpleasant gnawing feeling of 'hunger', which stops when we eat, there's no energy for healing since it's going towards digestion. Bear with me on this, it supposes that in a 'plumbing system' like we have with pipes, filters and a pump that certain starchy or fatty foods will tend to clog up the system. So here is an inner struggle in the unconscious, the ego saying "I want" and the body saying "hold on, I'm trying to fix things here" and perhaps being expressed as frustration, anger and depression. A possible cause of wars? The second thing has to do with the last quote presented " man's destiny is to create more and more consciousness" which as a long time gardener doesn't quite ring true for me. All the life I've ever seen has had one overriding concern which is to propagate life. Now if we subscribe to the Gaia theory or object oriented ontology then we're part of the planetary system of life, the tip of the spear, the ones most likely to advance into space and populate new worlds. In our collective unconscious we know this and the whole artificial intelligence picture that is looming so large is a result of the awareness that a.) the next good planet is so far that only a capsule with dna with a robot nanny fired off at 20 gravities has a hope of getting there in a reasonable amount of time and b.) it's too dangerous with radiation, going blind etc to work with living astronauts. IMHO.

[@foxwilliam456]

Everything from the collective unconscious that manifests into reality is the product of an archetype. An archetype is that which has action through the collective unconscious, by definition. The "other stuff" would be symbolic content, which refers to psychic entities, and would be by it's very nature, conscious. I hope this helps. :)

[@projectmalus]

It depends on whether we see reality as top down or bottom up. With Jung, Plato and his Forms, and religious God there is a primacy to the higher level structure that permeates down to lower levels. With Emergence, self-organizing parts form a law or property that has qualities that the parts don't possess, for example water molecules organizing in a lattice that creates ice and has the property of rigidity. This organizing begins at the subatomic level through the patterns of movement interaction (see a paper by Vincent Vesterby) and so is a bottom up view. As Ken Wilber describes the levels of emergence "the lower sets the possibilities of the higher, and the higher sets the probabilities of the lower" and that if enough chaos is introduced into a system the property disappears (he calls the properties 'holons') so "Destroy any holon and you will destroy all the holons above it, and none of the holons below it". So in the Emergent view matter organizes in patterns that carry through to higher levels like that of the conscious, then the subconscious and as the highest level the collective unconscious. The archetypes would be the patterns: in addition to the patterns in the collective unconscious there would the the property that arises. I might have this hierarchy wrong and I'm just thinking aloud here.

[@DannyCawleyArt]

ashurbanipul k

[@christinawilkephillips7684]

I am so happy I found your channel 😀

[@pineapple0074]

Thank you so much! This was very helpful! ✨✨

[@andrewnavarro2537]

Carl Jung was actually not the founder of psychoanalysis, he in fact was influenced by Freud. What Carl jung did was expand on the ideas, in the end they are both geniuses that contributed greatly to psychoanalysis.

[@nickolasgaspar9660]

not really....

[@afromuthfuka]

@@nickolasgaspar9660 no Freud no Jung. yes really and that's coming from someone who plans to get a tattoo of jung because i love him that much.

[@paulmoore7064]

I am reminded of the "Fire Sign Theatre" comic dialogue between a missionary and a Native American. Missionary: "On your knees now, lads. Do you know what I'm holding in my hand?" N.A: "It's a cross, the symbol of the division of the Earth into active and passive forces." Missionary: "Ah, God have mercy on your heathen souls!"

[@Havre_Chithra]

These are some of the best videos on youtube.

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

That.. the fact that his study of mythos brought this about (archetypes) makes so much sense to me. I hope you help expand this with my limited life experience building on the works of others.