Archetype

Archetype (Ancient Greek ἀρχέτυπον, archétypon — "primordial image", from ἀρχή — "beginning" + τύπος — "image") in Carl Jung's analytical psychology is an innate psychic structure, a universal pattern of perception and behavior, living in the collective unconscious.

Key Archetypes (Jung)

• The Shadow (Schatten) — the rejected, dark "I"
• Anima (Latin anima — "soul") — the feminine archetype in the male psyche
• Animus (Latin animus — "spirit") — the masculine archetype in the female psyche
• The Self (Selbst) — wholeness, the center of the entire psyche
• The Wise Old Man (Senex) — spiritual guidance, wisdom
• The Great Mother (Magna Mater) — birthing, care, devouring
• The Trickster — rule-breaker, renewal through chaos
• The Hero (Heros) — overcoming, transformation

The Nature of Archetypes

Not content, but form. Archetypes have no fixed content — they manifest through symbols, myths, dreams, rituals and synchronicities. They are "empty forms" that are filled with culturally specific content.

Archetypes in Errarium

Archetypal causality (axis C3). In the Errarium system, archetypal causality (axis C3) covers methods that work through the activation of archetypal images:

• Tarot (#20)
• The runic oracle (#21)
• The monomyth (#45)
• Jungian analysis (#11)