Yearning for Change
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
The Trickster archetype wants change. The character who carries this role operates like a court jester.
Seen as a fool whose words were spoken in jest, the court jester of medieval times addressed taboo and controversial issues, topics about which common citizens, lacking freedom of speech would and could not dare speak.
Tags: archetype, character, comedian, comedienne, consciousness, court jester, humor, monarch, protagonist, taboo, Trickster
Hark, the Herald Angels Sing!
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Much like Paul Revere announced the British were on their way to do battle in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, the Herald archetype in storytelling announces change and transformation to the major character.
The Herald places the protagonist on a state of alert, tells him or her how to read the signs, “One if by land, two [...]
Tags: archetype, battle, bid, British, challenge, change, character, Concord, dare, encourage, energy, Guardians of the Threshold, Herald, Lexington, mask, mentor, Paul Revere, plot, protagonist, role, story, survival, transformation
Who Am I: What Do I Really Want?
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
According to Jungian theory, the shadow aspect of one’s personality contains any, and everything that falls out of alignment, stands apart, from the ego ideal.
The writer must examine the central character’s values, those held by her or his family, mother, father and culture, to gain a sense of how the Shadow archetype might manifest [...]
Tags: antagonize, archetype, aspect of personality, awareness, back story, central character, characters, culture, destiny, discomfort, dream, ego, energy, family, father, friends, goal, Guardians of the Threshold, ideal, identity, major character, masks, Mentors, mother, negative, obstacles, others, positive, projection, protagonist, roles, self, Shadow, story, tension, values, wish, writing
Illusions, Deceptions, and Various Manifestations of Doubt
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
The Chameleon or Shapeshifter archetype relates directly to the Jungian archetypes of anima and animus. Anima is the feminine aspect all men hold and animus is the masculine aspect every female carries in her psyche.
Anima and animus reside in the archetypal unconscious that belies the individual unconscious layered by shadow. Anima and animus speak to [...]
Tags: ancestral history, anima, animus, archetype, Chameleon, Christ, collective unconscious, crucifixion, deception, doubts, fuel, illusion, individual and personal unconscious, instability, Lord of Death, Ma Kali, Major Arcana, manipulation, Shapeshifter, Siva, Tarot, The Hanged Man
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