ABSTRACT
In Jung's theory, as in Sigmund Freud's, glimpses of the structure of the psyche are made visible using psychological understandings of myth. The use of myth to see the archetypal more clearly is a cornerstone of Jungian theory and is used to help us increase psychological understandings of human patterns of behavior. Jung applied his comparative studies of mythology to symbolic material and "used any and all materials from world history that had a bearing on mental processes called 'amplification'". Contributions to complex theory are found in the writings of Erich Neumann, Marie-Louise von Franz's ideas presented in lectures in 1958 and 1959, the writings of Edward Whitmont first published in 1969, and in John W. Perry. In 1964, at the Second International Congress of Analytical Psychology, Jungian analyst Joseph Henderson suggested the existence of a cultural unconscious within the collective unconscious. A cultural complex leads to destructive behaviors in its members when aspects of the group identity are repressed.
