Quotes About Archetypes

Mythology, in other words, is psychology misread as biography, history, and cosmology.

If a being from another world were to ask you, How can I learn what it's like to be human? a good answer would be, Study mythology.

Mythology is not invented rationally; mythology cannot be rationally understood.

The symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche.

Mythology -and therefore civilization- is a poetic, supernormal image, conceived, like all poetry, in depth, but susceptible of interpretation on various levels.

the "guiding idea" of his work was to find "the commonality of themes in world myths, pointing to a constant requirement in the human psyche for a centering in terms of deep principles.

No one has claim to originality in literature; all writers are more or less faithful amanuenses of the spirit, translators and annotators of pre-existing archetypes.

The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.

In archetypes, there is the Nurturer and the Warrior. Different kinds of strengths that, ideally, complement each other and are equally respected.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

Bram Stoker, working in a largely intuitive manner, and no doubt propelled by more than a few personal demons, managed to tap a well of archetypal motifs so deep and persistent that they can assume the shape of almost any critical container.

People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"

"Angel" means messenger of God. But angels are nondenominational. The word "God" sometimes implies a Judeo-Christian orientation, yet angels are universal and ancient archetypes.

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

I'm very at home working with mythology.

I'm quite drawn to women artists who use themselves in their work. There is a very feminine point of view, the use of female archetypes. I love artists who play with those kind of things genuinely.

What these modern myths illustrate is this: Your generation isn't like the generation that shaped you, but it has much in common with the generation that shaped the generation that shaped you. Archetypes do not create archetypes like themselves; instead, they create the shadows of archetypes like themselves.

Jung sentia que é preciso passar, confrontando-os, pela nossa Sombra e pelos demônios reprimidos (complexos) do nosso inconsciente pessoal, mas que, ao mesmo tempo, somos ajudados e curados pelos conteúdos arquetípicos do Inconsciente Coletivo. Para ele, está acumulado nesse último uma 'riqueza' de sabedoria de toda a vida desde os primórdios. Sua linguagem está presente nas mitologias e religiões do mundo e nos fala por meio de figuras e símbolos arquetípicos.

A psique de todos traz dentro de si certos conteúdos arquetípicos - os mitos lidam num nível coletivo com esses conteúdos.

I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels of the forest.

We incarnate the archetypes with our physical lives. Our individual lives are containers in which they materialize on the face of the earth, the battlegrounds where they fight their eternal, cosmic battles, the stages on which they perform the universal drama that becomes, in one particularized form, every human life.

Much of the turmoil for a modern woman is the collision between her Aphrodite nature and her Psyche nature.

The socio-sexual system feedbacks run from front brain through hormonal and neuropeptide systems to genitalia to breasts and arms (hugging, cuddling, fucking circuitry). A good sexual imprint creates the archetypal bright eyes and bushy tails, while a bad imprint creates a tense (muscularly armored) and zombie-like appearance.