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Archetypes — Apertures and Affinities
The theory of archetypes from Carl Gustav Jung is considered to be one of the finest epistemes ever introducted in the world of psycholology. Archetypes have encoded and decoded quite a lot of social imagination into the fabric of collective unconscious. It has abstracted the currents of various cultures into the common thread of a universal mind.
Archetypes, according to Jung, are universal, primordial images, patterns, or motifs derived from the collective unconscious. Jung has also carved out a ground breaking taxonomy of these archetypes from different vantage points. Examples include the Mother, the Hero, and the Wise Old Man. Archetypes are not mere static images or ideas, but rather dynamic forces within the psyche. Archetypes reside within the collective unconscious, drawing their energy from this vast reservoir of shared human experience.
The fundamental ability of human mind to connect to a common collective unconscious is derived from its ability to transfer the experiences into a divergent format. Converged and concrete experiences become divergent due to the inherent contradictions. This state of divergence seems to be a perpetual pattern in the collective unconscious. If there was no divergence, these distinct archetypes would not have coexisted. Some archetypes become more divergent than others.
