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- Title
Response to Erik Goodwyn's paper 'Phenotypic plasticity and archetype: a response to common objections to the biological theory of archetype and instinct'.
- Authors
Roesler, Christian
- Abstract
Given this indissoluble jumble of definitions in Jung - which continues to this day in analytical psychology - I suggested in the Report that Jung's theory of archetypes should not be considered as a coherent theory, but as at least four different theories, which are confounded with each other in Jung's works. This leads me to suspect that Goodwyn equates archetype with instinct, which, as I have shown above, is a partial aspect of Jung's archetype theory but which is incompatible with other aspects of the same theory. In addition, it is still completely unclear which elements a catalogue of archetypes would contain - according to Jung's own statement, the number of archetypes is even unlimited (Jung [17], para. Jung however makes clear that archetypes arise without any influence from environment, experience etc. (Jung [18], paras.
- Subjects
PHENOTYPIC plasticity; INDIVIDUATION (Psychology); ARCHETYPES; ARCHETYPE (Psychology); JUNGIAN psychology; HUMAN behavior
- Publication
Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2023, Vol 68, Issue 1, p133
- ISSN
0021-8774
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-5922.12881