Seventy-Eight Archetypes?
Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 24 Apr 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.
| NiftyKracker |
24 Apr 2003 |
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Carl Jung probably spent too much time mucking around in the sucky peat-bog-world of the unconscious. Fortunately for us, however, he spent enough time with his ego to make a map of the conscious mind that has become oh-so-familiar to us obsessive tarot-types:
He replaced the ancient concept of the four humors with these psychological functions (the equivalent suits were an addition by another scholar which he may or may not have appreciated):
Intuition - Cups
Thinking - Swords
Sensation - Coins
Feeling- Staffs
But this is just one way to begin a relationship with a certain card. I trust I'm not the only that feels my own personal microcosm can be summed up with a single card. The King of Swords, with his penchant for losing himself in trains of though, has been my good friend and acquaintance. Let's hear some others... and please include your rationale!
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| Astraea |
24 Apr 2003 |
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Actually, it was never Dr. Jung's intention to "replace" the four elements with psychological types. The latter were independently developed, and later theorists made much of the correspondance between the psychological functions and the elements.
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| Astraea |
24 Apr 2003 |
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Yes, Rusty, thank you -- I meant to say "humors."
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| jmd |
25 Apr 2003 |
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Though I too tend to favour some correlation between the Jungian functions and the elements, and also between the elements and the suits, I do not find myself in agreement with the list suggested by NiftyKracker. Personally, I prefer the following:- Fire - Intuition
- Air - Thinking
- Water - Feeling
- Earth - Sensing
Their correlations with the suits variously follows the elemental attributions one wishes to also make.
As to the humours, again various attributions may be made...
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