Relating Addict: Jung's Archetypes: The Hidden Codes of Your Psyche

Archetypes

Jung believed that unconscious energy is manifested through archetypes. Archetypes are basically the words that articulate the unconscious material. Archetypes not only represent unconscious content brought into consciousness but they also exist outside of time and space.

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Archetypes may appear as universal symbols such as a mandala symbol or they are presented to us in a mythic story such as stories of rebirth. They emerge during states of reduced consciousness such as when we are daydreaming, dreaming, having visions, or in a state of delirium. "In these states, the check put upon unconscious contents by the concentration of the conscious mind ceases so that the unconscious material streams into the field of consciousness" (Mackey-Kallis 2023). They can also emerge during strong emotional states such as intense anger, love, hate, confusion, or pain.

Archetypes are spontaneous and have a life of their own.
They can not be permanently suppressed nor ordered to emerge and they are waiting to be revealed.

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What is the function of Archetypes?

Well, Jung claimed it was dangerous to suppress or ignore the collective unconscious because he believed that someone's fate is predominantly determined by the unconscious.
Suppressing the unconscious results in neurosis which is a nervous disorder characterized by intense emotional instability.
When someone or a social group deviates too far from their instinctual foundations then they experience the full impact of unconscious forces (Mackey-Kallis 2023):

they are meant to attract, convince, to fascinate, and to overpower
cultures need to continually explore the archetypes of the unconsciousness
they must constantly be reborn and reinterpreted for every generation or they can die.
Jung believed that to fully live the human life we must continually find new interpretations of the archetypes of the collective unconscious.

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