Archetypes
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustav_Jung" title="Carl Gustav Jung" class="mw-redirect" >Carl Gustav Jung</a> developed an understanding of archetypes as being "ancient or archaic images that derive from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious" title="Collective unconscious" >collective unconscious</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes#cite_note-0" >[1]</a></sup> </p>
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The archetypes are also referred to as innate universal <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic" title="Psychic" >psychic</a> dispositions which form the substrate from which the basic symbols or representations of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious" title="Collective unconscious" >unconscious</a> experience emerge.<sup class="Template-Fact" >[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" >citation needed</a></i>]</sup> </p>
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These are different from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinct" title="Instinct" >instincts</a>, as Jung understood instincts as being "an unconscious physical impulse toward actions and the archetype as the psychic counterpart".<sup id="cite_ref-FiestFriest_1-0" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes#cite_note-FiestFriest-1" >[2]</a></sup> There are many different archetypes and Jung has stated they are limitless, but they have been simplified; examples include the persona, the shadow, the anima, the animus, the great mother, the wise old man, the hero, and the self.<sup id="cite_ref-FiestFriest_1-1" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes#cite_note-FiestFriest-1" >[2]</a></sup> </p>
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The great mother, wise old man and the hero tend to be considered add on from the basic as in Jung’s map of the soul everything is covered, but those. The archetypes can be used for a sense of understanding as well as for a state of treatment<sup id="cite_ref-FiestFriest_1-2" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes#cite_note-FiestFriest-1" >[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes#cite_note-2" >[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes#cite_note-3" >[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes#cite_note-4" >[5]</a></sup> </p>
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"The archetype is a tendency to form such representations of a motif - representations that can vary a great deal in detail without losing their basic pattern ... They are indeed an instinctive <i >trend</i>".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes#cite_note-5" >[6]</a></sup> </p>
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Thus, "the archetype of initiation is strongly activated to provide a meaningful transition ... with a '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rite_of_passage" title="Rite of passage" >rite of passage</a>' from one stage of life to the next":<sup id="cite_ref-Rancour_6-0" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes#cite_note-Rancour-6" >[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes#cite_note-7" >[8]</a></sup> such stages may include being parented, initiation, courtship, marriage and preparation for death.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes#cite_note-8" >[9]</a></sup></p>