So today we're going to delve a little bit more deeply into the realm of symbolic representation.

And I'll tell you what I think I'm doing, and then I'll show you a bunch of examples

of it, then I want to tell you a couple more stories. And so I'll tell you the stories

in the second half of the class. So you know, it was Carl Jung who popularized and differentiated

the idea of archetypes. They weren't his idea. Platonic forms are archetypes, essentially.

Ideals are an archetype. And so, but Jung, the thing that I think he did that hadn't been

done before was to suggest that as well as suggesting, as Freud did that human beings

are composed of subpersonalities, Jung pointed out, as Freud did to some degree, that some

of those personalities have a universal character, and so that they can be thought about as transcendent

entities. And you could think about those, while they have been thought about and even

put forward as gods of one form or another. Now, when Jung talked about archetypes, it

was never clear what he meant. And I think the reason for that was because the archetype

is a very complicated idea and a very complicated phenomena. And you can think about it biologically,

and you can think about it socially, and you can think about it as something that the individual

participates in creating. So it's not that easy to localize it. And as well, it's not

that easy to localize it. And as well, Jung was never clear about what the universe of

archetypes looked like. At some times, he spoke as if they were a relatively small number,

and then at other times, he spoke as if they were innumerable. And I think the reason

for that is, in part, it depends on the level of analysis. The more transcendent the

archetype, the fewer they are. But they differentiate, because you might say, well, how many

hero archetypes are there? And one answer could be one, but they differentiate all the

way out into the diverse range of works of fiction that we have. So you could say there's

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