What is an archetype?

Please try to describe what an archetype is. I am very curious.
I know I am the Lover archetype, so also please help me understand what that means.

*One more thing: What are archetypal Shadows, and what are they for the Lover?

An archetype is the model of a person, personality or behavior
An archetypal shadow is the opposite of yourself, usually he has qualities you have that you don’t know you have
An archetypal lover is either the anima or animus
Anima is how a man’s dream woman is
Animus is how a woman’s dream man is

What improvements specifically would you suggest for this small bit of blank verse?

Fanúshi Khiyál

On ancient avenues the pilgrims come,
The box perched on their shoulders; it is lit
By candlelight that pierces through the dark.
And there, upon the fragile round they move ―
The painted shadow figures one by one,
In orbit and illumined by the flame,
Yet with no name, transmuting, will become
On each turn of the slow-revolving wheel
Transformed, as if the one where they now went
Had disappeared instead, and they’d become
This other pilgrim on an endless trail
That disappears around the farthest limb.
And where the light itself seems dim and dies
Arise the archetypes we’ve seen before,
Some low and forked, and others proud as kings,
Each slightly altered yet much as before,
All caught up in the endless sad parade
And pageantry within their tiny frame
Until the candle at the very heart,
Which lights the long procession, melts away
And all the darkness of the outer world
Becomes as one with what is in the box,
An empty socket where the warmth still clings
Until this sacred thing of light and dark
And purpose to the world is borne anew.
We are no other than a moving row
Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go
Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held
In Midnight by the Master of the Show.

a quatrain from ‘The Rubaiyat’ (Fitzgerald)

A total re-write, it’s awful. (JOKE).

Haha Peter, you know as well as I do that I would never be in any position to offer improvements upon a poem from the very person I learn my ‘poetic skills’ if you will, from. (I even pasted it into the comment box then deleted it back out again hoping the Yahoo spell checker would give me something to correct LOL).

The only thing I wasn’t too sure about was the use of the past participle ‘borne’, but that’s just me and hey, what do I know about poetry eh? .

Made for a great read Peter – as usual, keep writing!

What are some great acoustic songs?

I really like songs like "night’s shadow" by becoming the archetype and "pallers anders visa" by in flames, but i can’t find a full album of it, and i really want one, recommendations?
instrumentals only

Try the artist, City in Colour. Any of his albums will do. The self-titled is a good place to start. Try the songs "Hello, I’m in Delaware" and "Save Your Scissors".

Theodore Rotheke’s "In A Dark Time" relation to shadow archetype?

In what specific ways is Rotheke referring to the shadow archetype?

ok

I want someone to see my yugioh Shield Gardna Deck?!? R/F?

My friend made a defence deck and has had it for 5 years and he sold it to me… i got the usual defence monsters for a defence deck, but i tweaked it to make it around the gardna archetype, and it goes like this…don’t hate and tell me to look for a better deck, i have a Destiny hero zombie deck and i just want to make a fun deck since dads take all the fun away…

monsters 17
x3 Big shield Gardna
x3 mid shield gardna
x3 Ghost Gardna
x3 Freed, the matchless general
x3 destiny hero defender
x2 necro gardna

spells 19
x2 chorus of sanctuary
x2 yellow luster shield( i don’t want to depend on the field spell alone)
X2 Continuous destruction punch
x2 unity
x1 reinforcements of the army
x2 the warrior returning alive
x2 weapon change

traps 7
x3 cyber shadow gardna
x1 broken blocker
x3 staunch defender(with unity, otk baby!!!)

This deck is just a shout-out for the lonely archetype, gardna.. if you want to post anything and you don’t care, get a life and actually help someone, if possible for the people who do care, rate and then comment the deck please, think of the gardna….

-1 Necro Gardna (it’s limited)
-1 Weapon Change(does not support Freed, the Matchless General )
-2 Cyber Shadow Gardna
+3 Battle Mania
+2 Stone Statue of the Aztecs (i know you want to stay with ‘gardna’, but this card helps your deck a lot)

What are your opinions on Jung’s theory of religion?

Do you agree with the theory of the collective unconscious and archetypes and why?
Do you agree that modern religion can restrict individuation by repressing archetypes such as the anima and the shadow and why?
Thank you for your opinions
It’s not homework actually, I’m just interested in psychology

My opinions:

The basis of the collective unconscious concept is shared experiences (archetypes), innovations, "truths" demonstrated by people/cultures that had no communication or trade. Another way to describe it is virtually identical experiences that cannot be explained by interactions between cultures. A group of monkeys that started using a stick as a tool for a particular activity at essentially the same time as a group of monkeys thousands of miles away has been used as an example…

Jung was a bright guy and I really enjoy his ideas. I’m not sure that a shared unconscious mind, a sort of species wide database that can be tapped, is the answer for shared experiences. It could be contextual in that once cognitive development has the opportunity to reach a certain level of development (sufficient food production and storage capacity to allow for the leisure necessary to engage in activities not related to survival); certain ideas are likely to occur simultaneously. In addition, the universal nature of the archetypes may also be the result of reaching a point of cognitive development that allows for the description of dreams (language) and be more simply explained by the similarity of our neural physiology. To put it more simply, all unexplained shared experiences may be the result of the somewhat linear nature of evolutionary cognitive development.

I agree that there are shared experiences that cannot be explained through communication or contact between different groups. I don’t agree or disagree with the hypothesis that it’s the result of a shared unconsciousness, since it can’t be proved or disproved. The collective unconscious is an interesting possible explanation for the observations.

Do you agree that modern religion can restrict individuation by repressing archetypes such as the anima and the shadow and why?

I’m not sure any modern religion represses archetypes or that archetypes can be repressed. Most religions, even the patriarchal ones, have some form of duality. Mary is an example in Christianity and the grandmother/mother/mate/sister/daughter universal is present regardless of religious practice or belief. How or if it is acknowledged or how the anima is interpreted consciously (externally) can be impacted by religious teachings, but the presence of the archetypes cannot be repressed within the internal environment.

The shadow is a different matter and I don’t consider it an archetype in the same way I do the Anima and Animus. Repression of the “darkness” within humans at a low level of moral and cognitive development is desirable for social order and religion provides a valuable purpose in providing a framework for that repression. Jung believed that there is value in exploring the shadow and incorporating/integrating those aspects to create a more holistic “mind”. It’s a challenging thing to do though and can easily spin into societal negatives when explored by those of more limited levels of development. Those that should and are capable of embracing their shadow and incorporating aspects of it are likely beyond the point that they can or will be repressed by religion. In short, yes, religion can repress the shadow.

I suppose that the repression of conscious/external expression of the archetypes and the shadow can restrict individuation; however, the idea that individuation is a "good" thing for everyone is another question. I don’t believe that religion can repress the individualization of those that are cognitively capable of it.

Carl jung archetype help!!!!!!!!?

What happens if the Self’s or it maybe the shadow’s ( the archetypes) wants and needs are ignored???? i remember reading somewhere that you souldn’t ignore them and that something very bad would happen if you did. but i can’t remember what it was. Please help me. What happens????

Nothing is going to happen. It wasn’t important enough that you could remember. If it was, the universe will presents it to you again. You can only control something you have control of. Stop worrying, and don’t take things you have read as written on stones.

Carl jung archetype help!!!!!!!!?

What happens if the Self’s or it maybe the shadow’s ( the archetypes) wants and needs are ignored???? i remember reading somewhere that you souldn’t ignore them and that something very bad would happen if you did. but i can’t remember what it was. Please help me. What happens????

The ignored shadow will begin to gain energy. This "shadow" is a part of you, and can’t be removed only accepted/controlled.

If a part of your desires/personality are ignored long enough symptoms like nightmares or even physical discomfort will begin to appear. Eventually the energy builds up and effects behavior, sometime in little habits like nail biting or constant hair brushing.

If the shadow part of you isn’t given a release/acceptance it could even begin to unbalance the mind. Causing self hating behavior, double life and an attraction to the twisted thrills. (stealing, self harming, hatred towards others)

Different shadows bring about different symptoms, a desire for revenge may turn inward to self harm, or a dislike of authority may cause a person to graffitti. In the end by accepting this energy and directing it toward something useful it no longer stays a shadow but enriches your life.

Of coarse this isn’t always easy to do, so lots of people act out in ways they normally wouldn’t if they knew a better way.

the link I left is about a Jungian book I found helpful

Real Hip Hop After 1997 continued?

The same question but with more albums that wouldn’t fit into the first question. (I’m gonna keep doing this until I get all of them in.)

Cesar Comanche – Paper Gods
Count Bass D – Dwight Spitz
DJ Babu – Duck Season Vol. 1
DJ Spinna – Beyond Real Experience Vol. 2
D-Tension – Contacts + Contracts
Infamous Mobb – Special Edition
Jean Grae – Attack Of The Attacking Things
Journalist – Scribes Of Life
Jurassic 5 – Power In Numbers
Kool G Rap – The Giancana Story
Large Professor – 1st Class
Motion Man ft. Kutmasta Kurt – Clearing The Field
Nas – The Lost Tapes
Non Phixion – The Future Is Now
People Under The Stairs – O.S.T.
Planet Asia – Still In Training
Talib Kweli – Quality
Scienz Of Life – Project: Overground (The Scienz Experiment)
7L & Esoteric – Dangerous Connection
Soul Kid Klik – Invisible Army
Supastition – 7 Years Of Bad Luck
Various Artists – 8 Mile Original Soundtrack
Various Artists – Essential Underground Hip Hop Vol. 1
Various Artists – Fatbeats, Vol. 2
X-Ecutioners – Built From Scratch
Akrobatik – Balance
Breez Evahflowin – FLY
Brother Ali – Shadows On The Sun
Bumpy Knuckles – Konexion
Craig G – This Is Now
C Rayz Walz – Ravipops (The Substance)
CunninLynguists – Southernunderground
CYNE – Time Being
Electric Company – Life’s A Struggle
Gang Starr – The Ownerz
Hieroglyphics – Full Circle
The Last Emperor – Music, Magic, Myth
Lightheaded – Pure Thoughts
Little Brother – The Listening
Louis Logic – Sin-A-Matic
Mathematics – Love, Hell, Or Right (Da Come Up)
Nujabes – Metaphorical Music
Phi-Life Cypher – Higher Forces
PMD – The Awakening
Shabazz The Disciple – Book Of Shabazz: Hidden Scrollz
Soul Position – 8 Million Stories
Supernatural – The Lost Freestyle Files
Vakill – The Darkest Cloud
Viktor Vaughn – Vaudeville Villain
Various Artists – West Coast Lyricist Lounge
Braille – Shades Of Grey
Edo G – My Own Worst Enemy
Insight – The Blast Radius
KRS-One – Keep Right
Krumbsnatcha – Krumbsnatcha Classics
Masta Ace – A Long Hot Summer
R.A. The Rugged Man – Die, Rugged Man, Die
The Strange Fruit Project – Soul Travelin’
The UN – UN Or U Out
Various Artists – Halftooth Records Presents: You Don’t Know The Half
Afu-Ra – State Of The Arts
Asamov – And Now
Big Shug – Who’s Hard?
Common Market – Common Market
Little Brother – The Minstrel Show
Lone Catalysts – Good Music
The Lost Children Of Babylon – The 911 Report: The Ultimate Conspiracy
9th Wonder – Dream Merchant, Vol. 1
One Be Lo – S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M.
Pumpkinhead – Orange Moon Over Brooklyn
Distrakt – Distraktions
Ghostface Killah – Fishscale
Jedi Mind Tricks – Servants In Heaven, Kings In Hell
Kenn Starr – Starr Status
ORB & So Called Musicians – Dirty Scientifix
Panacea – Ink Is My Drink
Sound Providers – Looking Backwards: 2001-1998
Surreal & DJ Balance – Future Classic
Surreal & The Sound Providers – True Indeed
Archetype – Bleed For Them
Big Shug – Street Champ
Brother Ali – The Undisputed Truth
Buckwild – Diggin’ In The Crates – Rare Studio Masters: 1993-1997
Cymarshall Law – Hip Hop In The Flesh
DJ Jazzy Jeff – Return Of The Magnificent
Ivan Ives – Iconoclast
Mr. J. Medeiros – Of Gods And Girls
SoulStice – Dead Letter Perfect
Theory Hazit – Extra Credit
Common Market – Tobacco Road
Cymarshall Law – Hip Hop In The Soul
DJ Premier – Rare Play, Vol. 1
Elzhi – The Preface
Everliven Sound – Freedom
Grandmaster Caz – Mid Life Crisis
Insight – Targeting Zone
Ivan Ives & Fresh The Hitman – Juice To Get Loose To
J-Live – Then What Happened
Rhyme Asylum – State Of Lunacy
B.A.M. & Ric Rude – The New Golden Era
Blaq Poet – The Blaqprint
Cormega – Born And Raised
DJ Premier – Rare Play, Vol. 2
Endemic – Terminal Illness
Fashawn – Boy Meets World
Natural Elements – 1999: 10 Year Anniversary
Superstar Quamallah – Invisible Man
Thaione Davis – Still Hear
@CZ: Yeah that’s the point of these questions. For people to find out about these albums.
@No Picture: Wow you are a dumb*ss. They ARE in alphebetical order by year you f*cking moron. And I listed them so that people would be aware that they don’t have to confine themselves to getting albums from the "golden age" as determined by wikipedia. Does elitist just mean anyone who isn’t a retarded Wayne fan? Why the f*ck are you on this site anyway? You don’t want to learn sh*t about hip hop, you just want to try to look cool by calling out people you don’t know and will never meet. Why don’t you grow up and learn your ABC’s. Dumb*ss.
Edit: Oh yeah and one more thing. "None of these albums are crucial or important". Yeah, obviously not seeing as how they’re not on about.com. That’s why I’m putting them out here, so maybe they become crucial and important. You are a f@ggot who thinks Ready To Die is the greatest album ever, followed only by Tha Carter III (remember you have to like mainstream because you’re not a pretentious elitist. You’re down with Wayne who is "the sound of the ghetto." Even though he’s actually the sound of mansions in the suburbs. Do me a favor, look up Lil Wayne’s demographics on his youtube videos. 13 year old girls listen to Wayne! Dumb*ss.

Grand total = 190 exactly.

Very large metal collection .. what is it missing?

List of artists in my library, what is it missing in your opinion, list all the bands you can think of.

36 Crazyfists.
Abacabb
Abigail Williams
Aborted
Absu
AC/DC
The Acacia Strain
Ad Hominem
Adagio
Aeveron
The Agony Scene
Alestorm
Alghazanth
All Shall Perish
All That Remains
Amon Amarth
Animosity
Annihilator
Annotations of an Autopsy
Anthrax
Arch Enemy
Architects
Arsis
Arsonists Get All The Girls
As Blood Runs Black
As I Lay Dying
At The Gates
At The Throne of Judgement
Atreyu
Attila
August Burns Red
Austrian Death Machine
Autumn
The Autumn Offering
Avantasia
Avenged Sevenfold
Balflare
Baronness
Becoming the Archetype
Before the Dawn
Behemoth
Be’lakor
Belay My Last
Beneath The Massacre
Beneath The Sky
Benighted
Between the Buried and Me
Beyond Twilight
Beyond Ye Grave
The Black Dahlia Murder
Black Label Society
A Black Rose Burial
Black Sabbath
Black Tide
Bleed the Sky
Bleeding Through
Blind Colony
Blind Guardian
Blinded Colony
Blood Red Throne
Blotted Science
Blut Aus Nord
Borknagar
Born of Osiris
Bring me the Horizon
Brother Firetribe
Bruce Dickinson
Bullet for my Valentine
Burning the Masses
Cancer Bats
Candlemass
Cannibal Corpse
Carnifex
Cattle Decapitation
Celtic Frost
Cephalic Carnage
Chain Collector
Children of Bodom
Chimaira
Cloudscape
Communic
Converge
Cradle of Filth
Crimfall
Cronian
Crown of Glory
Crystallion
Cynic
Daath
Dagoba
Dark Empire
Dark Tranquility
Darkane
Darkest Hour
Darkness by Oath
Dawn of Tears
Deadlock
Death
Decapitated
Deep Purple
Deftones
Deicide
Despised Icon
Destroy Destroy Destroy
Destroy the Runner
Devian
The Devils Wears Prada
DevilDriver
Devin Townsend Project
Diecast
Dignity
Dimmu Borgir
Dio
Disarmonia Mundi
Divine Heresy
Dr. Acula
Draconian
Dragonforce
Dream Theatre
Dreaming Dead
Dry Kill Logic
Dying Fetus
Edguy
Eluveitie
Elvenking
Elysia
Emmure
Entombed
Equilibrium
Eternal Lord
Evergrey
Exmortus
Exodus
Eyefear
The Faceless
Fear My Thoughts
Fen
Fimbultyr
Firewind
Five Finger Death Punch
Flyleaf
Forefather
From Autumn to Ashes
The Gates of Slumber
God Forbid
Gojira
Gorgoroth
Graveland
Greeley Estates
Guillotine
Guns N Roses
Hammerfall
Haste The Day
Hatebreed
Hatesphere
The Haunted
Heaven & Hell
Heaven Shall Burn
Helloween
Hellyeah
Here Comes The Kraken
High on Fire
Himsa
Human Abstract
I Declare War
I Killed The Prom Queen
Iced Earth
Ignominious Incarceration
Ill Nino
Impending Doom
In Flames
In This Moment
Incrave
Into Eternity
Intronaut
Ion Dissonance
Iron Maiden
Isis
It Dies Today
Ivenberg
Job for a Cowboy
Judas Priest
Kamelot
Katatonia
Killswitch Engage
King Diamond
Kiuas
Knights of the Abyss
Kreator
Kronos
Lacuna Coil
Lamb of God
Lay Down Rotten
Led Zeppelin
Legion of the Damned
A Life Once Lost
Lothloryen
Luna Mortis
Lunatica
Machinemade God
Manowa
Manticora
Marduk
Mastodon
Mayhem
Megadeth
Mendeed
Mercenary
Meshuggah
Metallica
Misericordiam
Mnemic
Molotov Solution
Motorhead
Mudvayne
My Dying Bride
Mygrain
Mystic Prophecy
Naglfar
Napalm Death
Neaera
Necrophagist
Nevermore
Nightwish
Nile
Nodes of Ranvier
Norther
Novembre
Odious Mortem
Old Mans Child
Omnium Gatherum
Opeth
Order of Nine
Otep
Ozzy Osbourne
Pagans Mind
Pantera
Parkway Drive
The Partisan Turbine
Pelican
Persuader
Pestilence
Pig Destroyer
Pink Floyd
Place Vendrome
Porcupine Tree
Postmortem Promises
Power Quest
Powerwolf
Primordial
Profugus Mortis
Protest The Hero
Prototype
Psycroptic
Pyramaze
Queensryche
Raunchy
Razor of Occam
The Red Chord
Red Descending
The Red Shore
Rein Xeed
Revolution Renaissance
Rhapsody of Fire
Rose Funeral
Rotting Christ
Saint Deamon
Samael
Sanctity
Sandalinas
Saxon
Scorpions
See You Next Tuesday
Seith
Septic Flesh
Sepultura
Serenity
Shade Empire
Shadows Fall
Silent Civilian
Silentrain
Six Feet Under
Slayer
Slipknot
Soilwork
Sonata Arctica
Sonic Syndicate
The Sorrow
Soulfly
Spheric Universe Experience
Static X
Stick to your Guns
Still Remains
Strapping Young Lad
Stratovarius
Suicide Silence
Suspiria
Swallow The Sun
The Sword
Symphony X
Tears of Magdalena
Testament
Threat Signal
Through the Eyes of the Dead
Thyrfing
Tombs
Trivium
Trollfest
Type O Negative
Unearth
Unleashed
Vader
Veil Of Maya
Venom
Virgin Black
Voivod
Waking the Cadaver
Walls of Jericho
War from a Harlots Mouth
War of Ages
Warbringer
Watain
Whitechapel
With Blood Comes Cleansing
Within Temptation
Wolfchant
The Word Alive
Xystus

dillinger escape plan
misery index
this is hell
every time i die
underoath
down
crowbar
kingdom of sorrow
cavelera conspiracy
bury your dead
machine head
blessed by a broken heart
system of a down