Arquetipus de Jung. Inconscient col·lectiu

Jung described archetypal events: birth, death, separation from parents, initiation, marriage, the union of opposites; archetypal figures: great mother, father, child, devil, god, wise old man, wise old woman, the trickster, the hero; and archetypal motifs: the apocalypse, the deluge, the creation. Although the number of archetypes is limitless, there are a few particularly notable, recurring archetypal images, “the chief among them being” (according to Jung) “the shadow, the wise old man, the child, the mother … and her counterpart, the maiden, and lastly the anima in man and the animus in woman”.[9] Alternatively he would speak of “the emergence of certain definite archetypes … the shadow, the animal, the wise old man, the anima, the animus, the mother, the child”.[10]

The Self designates the whole range of psychic phenomena in man. It expresses the unity of the personally as a whole.

The shadow is a representation of the personal unconscious as a whole and usually embodies the compensating values to those held by the conscious personality. Thus, the shadow often represents one’s dark side, those aspects of oneself that exist, but which one does not acknowledge or with which one does not identify.[11]

The anima archetype appears in men and is his primordial image of woman. It represents the man’s sexual expectation of women, but also is a symbol of a man’s hard-on possibilities, his contrasexual tendencies. The animus archetype is the analogous image of the masculine that occurs in women.