To: K-list
Recieved: 2003/07/03 20:00
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: [K-list] An introduction (Archetypes)
From: Druout
On 2003/07/03 20:00, Druout posted thus to the K-list:
In a message dated 6/30/2003 7:10:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time, gutrek AT_NOSPAM hotmail.com writes:
>Cripes, don't you realize the free hotmail account only has a limited amount
>of storage space? :) Yet you often include these interesting links that I
>don't want to lose. So, I wind up saving the message. I can only delete it
>after I've had time to review the site and bookmark it. You're such a
>troublemaker :)
>
Dear Ken,
LOL! Yeah! Sorry about that! I, too, have got so much bookmarked that it would take weeks to go through it all. Most are so outdated they no longer function if I happen across them.
>As this quote demonstrates, I think Jung believed that certain symbols
>("pre-existent forms") exist a priori, as part of the collective
>unconscious, and are not culturally or externally imprinted on the
>individual. Certainly there are some hardwired, instinctual, "pre-existent"
>aspects in our brain, but I wonder if they are actually tangible shapes,
>forms, images, etc., or if they are more abstract, amorphous, entities -- a
>kind of feeling.
>
I ran into something interesting lately. There was an attempt to train Monkeys to fear certain objects. While it was extremely easy to get them to fear Snakes, it was very, very difficult to get them to fear flowers! Seems there are some preconditions/predispositions set in the brain. In this case, the shapes must be ingrained somehow.
Love, Hillary
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