ABSTRACT
Archetypes enrich our inner world, enliven it, activate imagination, and keep us in touch with the sense of the wondrous, the awesome, the poetic and the mysterious. Archetypes, according to Jung, being psychosomatic in nature and devoid of form and content, are irrepresentable and non-perceptual. There is an interesting relationship between the archetypes affecting the psyche and creativity. Creativity involves play and paradox and depends on a person’s capacity to tolerate contradictory—also complementary—qualities or processes, such as, for instance, activity and passivity; receptivity and productivity; consciousness and unconsciousness; masculinity and femininity. Carl Gustav Jung believed that archetypal images and motifs can at first be mediated to consciousness only through the processes of projection onto suitable objects and events. But in the course of maturation and in the service of reality testing, these archetypal projections tend to be withdrawn from actual persons and objects.
