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Comparing Jung's Archetypes And The Collective Unconscious

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Archetypes are as a set of primordial images present in the unconscious of the human being. Considering unreachable the unconscious part of the mind as highlighted by Jung in book The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings "We cannot deal with unconscious processes directly because they are not reachable" (36), the idea of archetypes based on the manifestations of the unconscious in the field of the conscious. “The archetypes are essentially an unconscious content that is altered by becoming conscious and by being perceived…” (5), states Jung in his book The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious. The archetypes manifest in diverse ways, such as in art, dreams, beliefs, values, among others. For example, a child in his 7 years old, dressed
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