CLAS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Potnia Theron, Euripides, Helots
Week 6
● Hermes and Hestia: protection
○ Carl Jung and the myth of the Archetype
■ A colleague of Sigmund Freud
■ Three Levels of the Psych
● Ego -- conscious mind
● Personal unconscious -- anything not conscious but can be
dragged to consciousness
● Collective unconscious -- collection of experiences as a species
○ The Archetype
■ Contents of the collective unconscious
■ Examples of Archetypes
● The Mother -- “caregiver”
● The Father -- authority/guide
● The Child -- the future, salvation
● The “Shadow” -- concerns our most “primitive selves”
● The Anima/Animus --aspects of the other gender in someone
● The Hero -- would like to identify with them
● The Wise Old Man -- the animus, teaches the hero
● The Maiden -- purity, innocence, naivete
● The Hermaphrodite -- union of opposites
● The Self -- unity of personality, the center
● The Trickster --mockery of social, religious, political, or moral
laws,institutions, authorities
○ Overturn and disrupt situations in which they find
themselves through tricks, antics, and deceptions
○ Can change bodily form
○ Creative with inexhaustible energy
○ Culture heroes -- give inventions to humans who
previously did not have them
○ Homeric Hymn #4 (to Hermes)
■ Inventions -- the lyre/music, making fire from kindling
■ Deceit -- Apollo’s cattle
■ Deceit -- “I’m a mere baby!”
■ Gift -- music and the lyre
■ Shapeshifter -- changes shape to fit through locks
■ Strength -- killing cows as an infant
○ Hermaphroditus
■ Both male and female
■ Offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite
○ Thoth
■ Egyptian diety
■ Law, medicine, math, language
Document Summary
Carl jung and the myth of the archetype. Personal unconscious -- anything not conscious but can be dragged to consciousness. Collective unconscious -- collection of experiences as a species. The shadow -- concerns our most primitive selves . The anima/animus --aspects of the other gender in someone. The hero -- would like to identify with them. The wise old man -- the animus, teaches the hero. The self -- unity of personality, the center. The trickster --mockery of social, religious, political, or moral laws,institutions, authorities. Overturn and disrupt situations in which they find themselves through tricks, antics, and deceptions. Culture heroes -- give inventions to humans who previously did not have them. Inventions -- the lyre/music, making fire from kindling. Shapeshifter -- changes shape to fit through locks. Strength -- killing cows as an infant. Advocate of the dead when soul weighed. Artemis and apollo -- initiation and transition.
