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Origins:

  • Pre-platonic and Platonic arche;
  • C. G. Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious (1916);
  • J. G. Frazer's The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (2 vols., 1890, 3d ed., 12 vols., 1911-15).

Jung (1875-1961):

  • myth (or "mythologem") -  the narrative expression, of "archetypes";
  • archetypes - patterns of psychic energy originating in the collective unconscious and finding their "most common and most normal" manifestation in dreams.

Northrop Frye (1912-91):

  • archetype - a primordial image, a part of the collective unconscious, the psychic residue of numberless experiences of the same kind; later - a literary occurrence per se, an exclusively intertextual recurring phenomenon resembling a convention.
  • rejection of Jung's collective consciousness in literary interpretation.

 

 

 
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