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145. Carl Jung (Part 2)

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There an Archetype?

Fiction is like a bridge. If there's individuals here, and the archetype is up here at a high level of abstraction, fiction sort of fills the gap between them. So you have to humanize the archetype to some degree, otherwise it's so abstract you can't relate to it. And good stories really do that. They bridge the gap. Some of them are more personal and less architipal. But if they're completely non-archetipal, there's nothing about them that captures you. That doesn't have any force. You're going to be manifesting architectal patterns of behaviour in your life, whether you know it or not. Eaven when you do something

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