In 1913, psychologist Carl Jung fell away from the world and lost himself within his own mind. For five years, he wandered his unconscious and struggled with a seemingly endless series of mental images. When he finally returned to the everyday world, he brought back with him the knowledge of these mental images .

These mental images were the archetypes. In this episode, I explore and explain their story.

Table of Contents:
Chapter I: Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud (7:21)
Chapter II: Looking out for Snakes (28:17)
Chapter III: Archetypes (46:15)
Chapter IV: The Hero Myth (1:09:31)
Chapter V: Heracles vs. Ladon (1:21:29)
Chapter VI: Conclusion and the Self (1:35:40)

Topics: Dragons!, Evolutionary Theory, Hero Myth, Jung's Personal History, Psychoanalysis, Self Development

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Apollodorus, The Library

Campbell, Joseph (1949), The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Clay, Catrine (2016), Labyrinths: Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl, and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis
- (Jung's Chekhov's gun(23:55))
- (This is my major source for Jung's life story)

Conan Doyle, Arthur, A Study in Scarlet
- (27:00)

Emre, Merve (2018), The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing

Hesiod, Theogony

Hazelden Betty Ford website: "Jung, Oxford Group helped influence spiritual roots of AA",

Isbell, Lynne A. (2009), The Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent, Harvard University Press
- (pg. 147(42:15))

Jung, C.G., The Collected Works of C.G.Jung
- (uncaring of popularity(4:45): CW 8, para 406)
- (psychological truth(26:12): CW 5, para 4)
- (dream's function(28:10): CW 5, para 5)
- (opinion on instincts(29:23): CW 9.I, para 92)
- (Christianity's motifs outside Christianity(44:14): CW 11, para 340)
- (archetypes as typical events(47:30): CW 5, para 450)
- (archetypes definition(50:05): CW 18, para 523)
- (archetypes def. cont.(50:20): CW 18, para 539)
- (life's purpose(59:00): CW 12, para 330)
- (goal of individuation(59:35): CW 7, para 373)
- (disturbing archetypes(1:00:25): CW 9.II, para 13)
- (shadow's demonization(1:01:00): CW 7, para 152)
- (archetypes as projections(1:01:40): CW 7, para 152)
- (anima's idealized image(1:03:15): CW 7; para 334)
- (rational v. emotional(1:05:40): CW 7, para 331)
- (hero as mother/old man(1:07:05): CW 7, para 379)
- (great mother as witch(1:08:25): CW 9.I, para 188)
- (old man as magic man(1:08:40): CW 7, para 153)
- (ceremony's purpose(1:10:45): CW 5, para 450)
- (hero as mother/old man(1:14:30): CW 7, para 378)
- (hero myth as solar myth(1:16:50): CW 5, para 299)
- (hero possession(1:37:55): CW 7, para 385)
- (self as all-encompassing(1:43:35): CW 14, para 776)
- (self guides life's purpose(1:43:50): CW 7, para 404)
- (self as objective standpoint(1:44:45): CW 11, para 428)
- (relating to self quote(1:45:50): CW 11, para 427)

Jung, C.G. (1963), Memories, Dreams, Reflections
- (quotes not from Collected Works are from this)

Ovid, Metamorphoses

Psychology Today, "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy" blurb on their website

Star Chart phone app
- (Source for Constellation)

Stevens, Anthony (1982), Archetype: A Natural History of the Self
- (Archetypes as grooves in earth metaphor(48:55))
- (This source helped me understand archetypes)


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