What is here employed from Jung and what is not?
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The term "archetype" appeared already in classical antiquity (Plotinus, 3rd Century A.D.). In modern time its contents are influenced by the Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist Carl Gustaf Jung (1875 - 1961), founder of analytic psychology. He developed the concept of "archetype" after analyzing his own dreams where he found symbolic ideas that he also found in different religions and mythologies. He developed a theory that said that these ideas, which he called "archetypes", emanated from an area of mind he identified as "collective unconscious". He maintained that this was shared by all human beings. According to Jung, these archetypes were instinctive patterns. In my treatment of the term "archetype" I have not taken any standpoint as to archetypes are inherited genetic patterns or a result of a learning in human interactions that dominate men's fundamental existence. My use of the reaction pattern "from-shared-concern-to-shared solution" which I call "archetype" is not meant as a contribution to the discussion regarding what Jung meant. My intention in using the term archetype is due to a need to give a pedagogical expression to my discovery that such a pattern, "from-shared-concern-to-shared solution" is easily released in a mediation situation. It is quickly understandable to the parties and hence an appropriate principle to explain effectively the goals of mediation in democratic contexts.
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