TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints1836
UR  - http://cogprints.org/1836/
A1  - McDowell, Maxson J.
Y1  - 2001/10//
N2  - The personality is a dynamic system. Like all other dynamic systems, it must be self-organized. In this paper I focus upon the archetype-as-such, that is, upon the essential core around which both an archetypal image and a complex are organized. I argue that an archetype-as-such is a pre-existing principle of organization. Within the personality that principle manifests itself as a psychological vortex (a complex) into which we are drawn. The vortex is impersonal. We mediate it through myths and rituals or through consciousness. In this paper I show that
Jung’s intuition about the archetype-as-such is supported by recent science. I evaluate other concepts of the
archetype. My concept allows each archetype-as-such to be defined precisely in mathematical terms. It also addresses our spiritual experience of an archetype.The human genome has only about 32,000 genes. How does human complexity arise from so few genes? Part of the answer must lie in the archetypes. Because of its familiarity with the archetypes, analytical psychology has a contribution to make here.  Because the archetypes-as-such are fundamental to the personality, the better we understand them the better we understand our patients. The paper is grounded with clinical examples. 
PB  - Blackwell
KW  - complex dynamic system
KW  -  self organization
KW  -  emergent
KW  -  cognitive science
KW  -  a priori
KW  -  heterochrony
KW  -  Jungian analysis
KW  -  personification
KW  -  archetype
KW  -  image
KW  -  evolutionary psychology
KW  -  dream analysis
KW  -  mythology
KW  -  ritual
KW  -  spiritual
KW  -  human genome
KW  -  organizational principle.
TI  - The three gorillas: an archetype orders a dynamic system
AV  - public
ER  -

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