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A Jungian talk about tales |
| Psychology > Archetype-Jung | |||
| By : Marie-Claire Dolghin - Friday, 21 May 2010 00:00 | |||
 Tales come from oral tradition. Loyally passed on and patiently revised by generations of storytellers who always told their people what is human destiny, they express the wisdom of the unconscious and talk to our intimacy.In that presentation, three ways of reading enable to distinguish tales: (1) Universality of archetypes and structures, (2) diversity of visions of the world: austral totemism, Siberian Shamanism, equatorial forests animism, (3) local ecosystems: Cinderella's little glass slipper transforms, in its Tibetan version, in a "felt boot"... The tale is linked to the world of symbol: this world is between the world of matter and unutterable. It shows a representation of mental life. The symbol improves the complexity of representations of mental life but also enables to understand it better. Marie-Claire Dolghin-Loyer (analyst and author) and Chantal Delacotte (geographer and President of the Association Marie-Louise von Franz) talk in this debate about the study that Carl Gustav Jung and Marie Louise von Franz did of these tales.
The talk raises many questions, among them: - how to define the exact origin of tales? Is it a dream which transformed into a "local saga", then after adaptations joined a form of collective unconscious? By what magic does this « eureka » occur, giving the tale a timeless and universal dimension? Is it that same magic which Californian cinema industry uses (the word Eureka is on the blazon of the State of California Ed) to assure the success of its productions like Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings or Avatar?
- to which path of oneself, initiatory, do tales invite us? The breaking, the departure, wandering, masculine / feminine, the old man and the young man, the hidden in oneself (the shadow-Hades), the entirety (Ring), moral: all this archetypal stories and images open a world, the mental one which is not "a game for kids" unlike a first level of understanding. Behind tales are the arcanas of a true initiation.   -which interpretation of tales could be more judicious? Do we have to oppose an analogical approach close to hermeticism which links microcosm and macrocosm and which puts archetypical images one inside the other or are we in presence of a mystic, of a cosmic continuum between different reigns: vegetal, animal and human?   So many fascination point evoked in this debate (2x50 minutes): tale may have left the sphere of orality to a written or filmed base but its presence and the strength of its messages remain intact! Presented by Virginie Durand
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