Category: Archetypes

Archetypes – A Basic Understanding

Archetypes – A Basic Understanding

| April 17, 2011 | 4 Comments

“All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.” ~Carl Jung, The Structure of the Psyche The word Archetype was term used by Neo-platonic philosophers, such as Plotinus, to designate ideas as models of all the things that exist, according to the Platonic concept.  In the theistic philosophies, the term represents the pre-existent [...]

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