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- Title
The Human Body is the Collective Unconscious: Archetypal Images as Innate Embodied Metaphors.
- Authors
Goodwyn, Erik
- Abstract
For a significant part of its history, archetype theory has been undermined by criticisms containing unexamined Cartesian assumptions. Such assumptions treat all cognition as disembodied, consisting of mere manipulation of abstract, inherently meaningless signs mimicked from verbal instruction or cultural learning. Since the 1980s, due to the results of many independent disciplines, however, this view is being replaced with one of embodied cognition. This shift has important consequences for archetype theory, allowing us to provide a non‐reductive biological anchor that explains many characteristics of the archetypal image.
- Subjects
COLLECTIVE unconscious; HUMAN body; ARCHETYPE (Psychology); METAPHOR; COGNITION; ARCHETYPES
- Publication
Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2024, Vol 69, Issue 3, p411
- ISSN
0021-8774
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-5922.12998