Archetypes can be understood intellectually. Multitudes of writings and pictorial symbols have been created to explain different archetypes intellectually. An easy way to understand archetypes is that they represent patterns of behavior. People unconsciously act out archetypal behavior all the time. It's very easy to see someone acting out the hero archetype or the victim archetype(aka the damsel in distress). With some self-reflection, these unconscious behaviors can be recognized and integrated into concious behavior.
Thank you for sharing! I think that the concept of the archetype can be understood intellectually as one can understand a concept of an image of God or the Self intellectually. One can never fully grasp the Self or the Archetype merely with intellectual understanding but words and concepts may point the way. It is through archetypal experience or experience of the Self that we may come to know these things. To me, Jung had a respect for the archetypes and had an understanding that archetypes are much bigger than we can truly know. In my humble opinion, the archetypes are much deeper than patterns of behavior, but represent patterns of fundamental laws of psychic reality.
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Archetypes can be understood intellectually. Multitudes of writings and pictorial symbols have been created to explain different archetypes intellectually. An easy way to understand archetypes is that they represent patterns of behavior. People unconsciously act out archetypal behavior all the time. It's very easy to see someone acting out the hero archetype or the victim archetype(aka the damsel in distress). With some self-reflection, these unconscious behaviors can be recognized and integrated into concious behavior.
Thank you for sharing! I think that the concept of the archetype can be understood intellectually as one can understand a concept of an image of God or the Self intellectually. One can never fully grasp the Self or the Archetype merely with intellectual understanding but words and concepts may point the way. It is through archetypal experience or experience of the Self that we may come to know these things. To me, Jung had a respect for the archetypes and had an understanding that archetypes are much bigger than we can truly know. In my humble opinion, the archetypes are much deeper than patterns of behavior, but represent patterns of fundamental laws of psychic reality.