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    Jungian Psychology

    Archetypes

    Universal symbolic patterns that structure the collective unconscious, recurring across cultures, mythologies, dreams, and art in recognizable forms. Jung identified archetypes not as fixed images but as dynamic forces — the Mother, the Shadow, the Hero, the Trickster, the Self — that exert a gravitational pull on the psyche from below the threshold of consciousness. In the 4th Tarot, every card embodies at least one Jungian archetype in active expression: the Major Arcana maps the fundamental archetypes in their most concentrated form, while the Minor Arcana and Court Cards extend archetypal mapping into the textures of ordinary life.

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