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 |
*(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.