EP 19: Archetypes Jung, Freud
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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Imprinting in Animal Psychology
In animal psychology we know that there are images that are born in the psyche for example a little dog just hatched from the egg will attach itself as to a parent to the first moving creature it sees. This is called an imprint and can't be erased learning in the normal way is through gradual teaching but imprinting takes place like that and is indelible all you can do with the imprint is transform the way of relating to it. The food responses and the sex responses these are innate in the psyche the image brings forth the response and that's all this to it uh the odors of this order also um, most of the images of mythology may be subject to interpretation as imprints.
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