Posts Tagged ‘Carl Jung’

This archetype was described as Carl Jung as a person with great judgment and wisdom.  The wise old man is sometimes referred to as the Sage.

This archetype is characterized by being old, bearded, father-figure type who uses his great personal knowledge of the world and offer guidance through stories and may impress upon his “student” who he could become, thereby taking the role of “mentor”.

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Carl Jung defines the Great Mother as a significant archetype of an energy-laden image we hold in our psyche, as our mother being our first experience in this world when we were in her womb.  It was through her that we experienced or first sounds, it was her breasts where we first got nourishment, her arms that first held us, and her voice that sung us to sleep.

Jung said our experiences with our mothers are our first formative ones.  Later on these experiences will manifest itself on how we treat other women, other people in general, life as a whole and to some extent, our own bodies.

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Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist well known for his influence on analytical psychology.  He was born in the small town of Kesswil in Switzerland.  His father Paul was a pastor and his mother Emilie came from a prominent Swiss family.

Jung was an introvert and solitary child.  He was convinced that he had two personalities.  Personality 1 was a normal typical schoolboy who lived in his current time, while Personality 2 was a dignified and authoritative man in the past.

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