Archetypes and Human Understanding

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Archetypes are one of the most intriguing psychological constructs. An archetype, in its simplest definition, is a construct of someone, something, or some situation that is consistent in its nature even if it is represented in different forms in art, literature, or storytelling. An example of this would be the "Wise old man" archetype.

        Karl Jung, a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist, pioneered the development of the psychological concept of the archetype. In Jungian psychology, archetypes are these primitive underlying form that are the source of many human character and situation mental constructs, like motherly figures, flood myths, and others.

     Jung argued that archetypes are part of the collective unconscious of humanity. If there is such a thing, I think that this could be tied into something akin to genetic memory. A natural neurological and biological wiring of the human brain to both notice archetypal constructs in art, entertainment, myth, or real world situations like the personalities of people in individual's lives.

    There seems to be, from my perspective, a biological wiring in people to find certain premises and plots of stories more appealing, certain character types more intriguing, and many of us find conflict and conflict resolution a strong driving force of our interest in both fiction and reality situations.

Humans get much of our understanding from archetypal constructs. However, being an archetype most certainly does not delegitimize the essence and value that an archetype has when it comes to educational and lesson-teaching for humans.

 If archetypal mental constructs are possibly wired into our minds and brain, than when we conjure up or develop archetypes in stories, they possibly have an evolutionary or biological function for our survival, our, potential to thrive, and our pleasure and enjoyment of life.

 Archetypal constructs add depth, meaning, pleasure, and purpose in our life, and they are excellent methods to teach both young and old people valuable lessons about the human condition, the world, the universe, and existence in general.

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