The Child Archetype Explained With Examples - Archetypes 101

In this Archetypes 101 we explore the Child archetype. This is the Jungian archetype that is operative in the story of Harry Potter, Moses and Jesus. As one of the core archetypes of the Collective Unconscious in Jungian psychology, the Child archetype is the symbol of hope and transformation. This is the Divine Child archetype of mythology and depth psychology.
This episode of the Living Philosophy takes this archetypes apart and looks at its three component parts: the dysfunctional old order, the divine child and the new value system that the Jungian Archetype of the divine child is pointing to. We will also be exploring how the Divine Child is sort of the Shadow Archetype of the ossified old order. All this and more on this episode of Archetypes 101.

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[timmcdraw]

this is brilliant. thank you so much for making this video, I wish more people were finding it!

[kristijantadic]

Power reveals what is already there. Look at Markus Aurelius.

[schumikel]

What advice do i need to give someone who has seen the divine child in his dreams? What are the ways one can protect the divine child they had seen in their dreams?

[MrGotmymojoworkin]

Thank you for this excellent elucidation . Truly helpful . ♥

[MrMarkobus]

Great video and well explained, I learned a lot. Do you believe that the child archetype in us is reactivated or tempted to appear whenever we face new experience or environment. As we are trying to place the ossified old order within ourselves into the outer world and that might not fit within the milieu. Therefore we have to be reborn into our new environment or experience as the divine child and perhaps even behave like one to fully soak ourselves into what we are venturing into?

[papessa]

It’s been there as The Fool card in tarot

[basitnisar]

Subtitles are missing, I couldn't get it thoroughly.

[klaus]

So Jesus Joseph etc are were and there will be divine children being born right? It is an actual person and at the same time non divine orphan children relate to this archetype but how?

[joaquinpacheco]

Is Britney Spears the Child Archetype?