Carl Jung's archetypes (monsters)
Carl Jung was a friend of Freud and also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. However, the two have different ideas on psychoanalysis: "Freud would claim that the sexual theory derived from psychoanalysis is an 'unassailable bastion against the black avalanche of the occult', and by 'occult' he meant philosophy, religion, and parapsychology (a new branch), while Carl Gustav Jung regarded these fields of study as high-potential ground for psychoanalysis" (Romila). Carl Jung depicts the individual unconscious as just a "very thin 'layer' that 'covers' the collective unconscious" (Romila). Also, he provides five archetypes that he believes can stimulate the unconscious (or the "forces) in people's mind: "the Self, its Shadow, the Soul, the Divine Couple, and the Child" (Paganopoulos).
The mental graph in Jung's concept can be divided into two basic blocks: conscious and subconscious. The subconscious can be further divided into the individual psyche and collective unconscious. The depth of the human mind is as objective and real as the external, "real," collective-conscious world (Romila). There are four levels of thought: first, personal consciousness, also known as the self, is the conscious mind of a person, the part of the brain about cognition, feeling, thinking, and memory; second, personal unconscious, which is unique to individual minds, but cannot be perceived; third, the collective subconsciousness, a universal structure of the human mind; fourth, the external world of collective consciousness: a cultural world with shared values and forms. This is the most profound and least accessible level in personality. In Jung's view, just as each of us accumulates and stores all personal memory files in the individual subconscious, the human collective as a race also stores human and pre-human species experiences in the collective psyche (Romila).
Carl Jung thinks that these archetypes are the same among different people, but different in which these archetypes manifest themselves in humans (Romila). To dig deeper into the content of Jung's archetypes, he believes that it is essential to relate archetypes to the human ego. Jung believed that "Ego's conflict with the Archetypes reach the consciousness dialectically, stimulating the individual's psyche" (Paganopoulos). Take Jesus as an example of Jung's archetypes. The reason that considering Jesus as an archetype of Self is because of Jesus's incredible life and mysterious origin. However, Jesus is just a part of the "archaic Self of 'Christ,' " existing in individuals' priori. This means that "it pre-exists the historical figure of Jesus while finding expression through the symbolic life of Jesus" (Paganopoulos).