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TABLE VI EXAMPLES OF ARCHETYPES
ARCHETYPE EXAMPLE INTERPRETATION CITE
Uruboros* Snake encircling the World Snake of knowledge and womb of time Neumann 1970:5
Great Mother Isis, Kali Terrible matriarch who dominates Neumann 1970:39
Duality Yang and Yin Conjunction of opposites Neumann 1970:102
Birth of Hero Hercules Male hero figure Neumann 131, Norman 112
Slaying father Oedipus Patricide Neumann 1970:170
Slaying mother Orestes Matricide Neumann 1970:152
Hero frees Captive Perseus and Andromeda Deliverance Neumann 1970:195
Transformation Osiris Death and rebirth in corn planting Neumann 1970:220
Virgin Goddess Kore, Diana Virginity Jung and Kerenyi 1969:103
Divine Child Apollo, Pan, Cupid Youth Jung and Kerenyi 1969:25f
Twins Castor and Pollux Duality Norman 1969:37
King Must Die King of the Wood Kingship for a period, then death Frazer, Renault
Wanderer's Feats Odysseus Wandering hero Norman 1969:199
Trickster Trickster Divine buffoon Norman 1969:151
Animus Male persona for women Male persona for women Harding 1963:211ff
Anima Female persona for men Female persona for men Harding 1963:211ff
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*(see page 204-5, note 15, page 244, and note 28, page 113). Man's present state of consciousness, (the OSC), appears to be a level advanced over that of his pre-human ancestors during the ice ages and before. In this state, time, space and personality are defined and seen as differentiated from nature.-in other words Hume's "loose and separate" condition. But the uruboros represents a primal, undifferentiated, dreamy autistic state in which man did not know himself as separate, and did tot have self-conscious life. Genesis describes this state as "Eden" and tells us that when man act of the tree of knowledge, he lost his innocence, and was cast out, (into space, time and personality). It is probable, however, that the state of the uruborus was not as idyllic as here portrayed, and that at this time, man's ancestors were traumatized by the fierce struggle to find food and keep warm in a cold and inclement climate. It is significant, for example, that when anxiety states emerge in psychiatric breaks, they frequently involve inordinate concern over food, and clothing, and money, (the means of obtaining them). They could represent an emergence into consciousness of the vestige of archaic racial consciousness, when for some reason the ego is too weak to suppress such primitive material. On the other end of the continuium, it is also significant that escalation into higher syntaxic procedures involves the transcendence of space, time, and personality, about which both Mach (space-time) and Sullivan (personality) are on record. This situation makes it appear that our vivency represents a voyage of consciousness into, through, and out of space-time-personality, which in turn suggests that there is some kind of strength, lesson or orientation therein to be gained.