Reflecting on Carl Jung's idea of archetypes, and its subsequent development to what it is now. I briefly touch upon Beebe's profoundly important deviation from Jung's original concept, and how it actually clarifies Jung's idea and makes it more useful in therapy and self-development.

Here I reflect about how having an objective way to communicate an idea needs it to be codified first in a universally well-understood form. Psychology suffers from not having such a common language, whereas Mathematics does. Psychology could use ideas from Mathematics to help its own case. Analytical Psychology shows some hope in this realm.

The Challenge of Language in Conveying Ideas about the Mind

In this series, I am exploring the idea of archetypes in psychology. In this episode, we're looking at the origin and subsequent development of this idea, eventually reflecting on which of these branches of understanding archetypes is most useful for self-development.