ABSTRACT
These three levels alone suggest that the archetypal ordering of human existence provides for the possibility of intersubjectivity in terms of shared perception, needs and activities. The Jungian perspective holds more. Jung characterizes man as inherently social. He begins life in a symbiotic relation with another human, and spends much of his life seeking a return to that same state. Because that early symbiosis becomes the root of feelings of relatedness and belonging there is a strong tendency for people to be drawn into and overpowered by groups. Thus, intersubjectivity is founded, from the Jungian perspective, upon the psychoid base of the collective unconscious and upon the archetypally determined bond with the mother, which becomes the functional basis for all other interactions.
