A4: Choosing Your Own Archetype(s)

What am I doing? Not a Masters (NaM) Unit 1: The Stories I Tell Myself The Assignment Choosing Your Own Archetype — In her introduction and first chapter, Estés describes the wolf-woman/wild-woman archetype and introduces other common archetypes (e.g. the Old Woman/Crone/Sage, Great Mother &Father, the Divine Child, the Trickster, the Sorceress, the Maiden and the Youth, the Heroine Warrior and the Fool). Nell Painter uses the archetype of The Artist as she reflects on her own legitimacy. Translate and describe these, thinking of other commons stories that implement them. What archetype might describe our own internal drive? The Origins of Archetypes Carl Jung’s exploration of human experiences and behaviours is an area of study that many writers undertake as they seek to understand not only what makes a good story but what the internal drive for storytelling is actually about. Jung formulated a theory about the “collective unconscious”, an idea that essentially proposes that there…