12 Arquetipos - Os

1. Introduction The concept of the 12 archetypes originates from Carl Gustav Jung , a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed that beneath the personal unconscious lies a collective unconscious – a universal, inherited structure shared by all humans. This collective unconscious is populated by archetypes : primordial images, symbols, and patterns of behavior that influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions.