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Bernardo Kastrup does bring Jungian archetypes into his framework of analytic idealism, but he interprets them differently than Jung did. Here’s the gist:
Kastrup & Jung’s Archetypes
Jung’s View
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Archetypes = innate structures in the collective unconscious that shape myths, dreams, symbols, and behavior.
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They are not personal memories but universal forms (e.g., Mother, Hero, Shadow, Self).
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Archetypes express themselves symbolically in culture, art, and religion.
Kastrup’s Adaptation
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Under analytic idealism, reality = mind at large.
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Jung’s archetypes are seen as patterns of mind at large that filter into individual psyches.
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They are transpersonal organizing principles of consciousness itself, not just brain-based templates.
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Archetypes manifest both in personal experience (dreams, visions, intuitions) and in collective cultural narratives because all psyches are dissociated alters of the one universal mind.
Similarities Between Jung & Kastrup
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Both see archetypes as not reducible to material brain states.
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Both treat them as structuring forces of psyche and world.
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Both link archetypes to symbolism, myth, and meaning-making beyond the personal ego.
Differences
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Jung: Archetypes are psychological structures in the collective unconscious.
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Kastrup: Archetypes are ontological structures of universal consciousness itself.
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Jung = depth psychology, empirically grounded in therapy and case studies.
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Kastrup = metaphysical philosophy, framing archetypes as expressions of the deeper reality from which matter arises.
Kastrup on Archetypes (Paraphrased Gist)
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Archetypes are the “native language” of mind at large.
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They surface as recurring motifs because they are structural patterns of consciousness itself.
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Myths and religions encode archetypes because they are direct projections of mind’s deep architecture.
👉 Would you like me to make you a side-by-side table (Jung vs. Kastrup on archetypes), similar to the earlier one I made for Blackmore vs. Kastrup? That way you can visually compare them point-for-point.
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