Mother Archetype Symbols

What Do They Mean??

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According to Jung, there is a feminine personality hidden inside of the unconscious of every man and vice versa for women. They are labeled 

Anima

Animus

Anima-Animus - best illustragted with the chinese yin yang symbol

Jung believed that the majority of male or female genes determined someone's sex. However, the minority genes that do not determine the sex do not just disappear once the sex of the developing fetus is determined.(Mackey-Kallis 2023)

The Mother archetype or image of the mother goddess or great mother spans the world's religions and cultures. In psychology, it is often associated with (Mackey-Kallis 2023):

1. fertility
2. fruition
3. a garden
4. a cave
5. plowed field

• It is connected with birth or any round cavernous place and, by expansion, rebirth, or magical transformation and healing - all of which are positive connotations.
• The negative connotations of the mother archetype  (Mackey-Kallis 2023):
• the witch
• devouring dragon
• grave
• deep water
• any suffocating or annihilating energy 

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The first manifestation:

The mother complex can stimulate or inhibit her feminine instinct. The exaggeration of the feminine instinct is represented in the daughter whose only goal is to have children. She views her husband as an instrument only. She is self-defined as "living for others" However, she does not make any true or meaningful sacrifices for other people.

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The second manifestation:

The daughter with an overdeveloped sex drive which potentially replaces the maternal instinct. Jung believed that this could lead to an unconscious incestuous relationship with the father driven by jealousy of the mother.

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The third manifestation:

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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 References

Mackey-Kallis, S. (2023). Jungian archetypes and the collective unconscious. Salem Press Encyclopedia of Health. 

Jung's

Unconscious

Two types of unconscious according to Jung (Mackey-Kallis 2023):

1. Personal Unconscious - This is where personal dreams originate and are specific to the individual and involve material that may have been forgotten such as memories of birth or memories repressed from consciousness like child abuse.
2. Collective Unconscious - Archetypal dreams originate from here. This area is a reservoir of elemental configurations or archetypes that are outside of space and time and it is inherited. "Identical and present in all individuals and represents a common psychic substrate of a suprapersonal nature"
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Jung believed that the realm of consciousness does not make up the total psyche. Jung supports this claim through many years of clinical observations of patients' dreams and visions - especially schizophrenics.( Mackey-Kallis 2023)

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A quote from Jung printed by Mackey-Kallis (2023) states "Achieving individuation through the therapeutic method of complex psychology requires rendering conscious the energy of both the personal and collective unconscious, to reconcile the conflict between conscious and unconscious content.

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Transcendent Function

What Jung called reconciling the conflict between conscious and unconscious content.

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 References

Mackey-Kallis, S. (2023). Jungian archetypes and the collective unconscious. Salem Press Encyclopedia of Health.