Here comes a short compilation on archetypes by Roberto Assagioli:<\/p>\n
TD= Transpersonal Development, 2007.<\/p>\n
PS= Psychosynthesis, 1965.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe two main symbols of development are the seed and the flower: a seed has all the potential it needs to become a tree, and a flower, from its closed bud, opens up and enables the fruit to form.<\/p>\n
We have grown so used to this that it no longer surprises us when an acorn, by some miraculous process, becomes an oak, or when a child becomes an adult. But where actually is the tree in the seed? Where is\u00a0the oak in the acorn? Aristotle spoke about ‘entelechy’, and others have spoken about ‘models’ or ‘ archetypes”. One has to admit some pre-existent reality, an immanent Intelligence guiding the various\u00a0stages of development from the seed to the tree, from the germinal cell or cells to the complete organism.\u201d (TD-89)<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cA second important fact (related to the one just considered) is that the psychological life of a nation corresponds to a great extent to that which is unconscious <\/em>in individuals.<\/p>\n Modern investigation of unconscious psychological activities has ascertained that these are chiefly instinctive, emotional and imaginative. They are easily influenced by suggestion, and are often dominated by the collective unconscious, directed by ancestral \u201cimages\u201d or archetypes, as Jung called them. A genuine and unbiased observation of the psychological life of all peoples demonstrates that it is dominated by the same characteristics.\u201d (Psychosynthesis \u2013 Individual and Social<\/a>, by Roberto Assagioli)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThis, then, has been the course taken by the development of depth psychology, which includes not only Freudian psychoanalysis, but also currents branching off from it, such as the Jungian. It is true that Jung did not limit himself to the study of the underworld of the psyche. Indeed he applied himself vigorously to the investigation of the higher aspects of the unconscious and asserted the existence and importance of spiritual experiences and values.<\/p>\n However, in his conception of the individual and collective unconscious, Jung does not clearly distinguish the different psycho-spiritual levels. In his theory of archetypes, for example, he considers them to be both of archaic, collective origin, and prototypes related to Platonic \u201cideas.\u201d It therefore seems justified to apply the term \u201cheight psychology\u201d (as others have already done) to the field of investigation constituted by the higher levels of the psyche, its upper \u201cstories\u201d; thus contributing to the formation of an integral psychology <\/em>that is truly three-dimensional.\u201d (The New Dimensions of Psychology: The Third, Fourth and Fifth Forces<\/a>)<\/p>\n