Saturday, August 13, 2011

Are the Jungian-type archetypes around a person's name?

There may be a bit of subjectivity in why parents pick a name (imagining a child of certain qualities) and there may be something to the notion that we play some roles like the child in need of mother finding the nurturer in proximity and such a female heeding the call but I doubt our names really fulfill Jung's archetype which was more explorAtion than finished theory. I fear prejudice should we make huge archetypal beliefs based on name.

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