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.

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 it, 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.

...