The Human Body is the Collective Unconscious: Archetypal Images as Innate Embodied Metaphors
Journal of Analytical Psychology May 29, 2024 Erik D. Goodwyn 3 citations
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,...