The nature of myth and mythology is closely related to social accord, harmony with the Universe, and archetypes of any culture from a societal and psychological perspective. In general, an archetype is an idealized construct or model of a person, object, or concept compared with a psychological archetype being a model of a person, personality (and sometimes a set of collective personalities), or behavior (and sometimes a set of collective behaviors).Based on Jungian psychology, there are four specific archetypes (Jungian Archetypes):
The Self
The Shadow
The Anima
The Animus
There are other Jungian archetypes, images, and characters which will be explored later. For now, the focus will concern the above four psychic structures as they parallel to myth and mythology. Let us begin our journey with some definitions.
To be continued . . .
