Historical crises
are moments for archetype strengths to emerge.
Archetypes
are Jungian concepts that he got from the philosopher Plato about the supposed
perfect ideas of things in an ideal world out from this one.
For Carl
Gustav Jung archetypes are psychological potentialities that everyone has to
develop and live with building his own self. One common example is “the hero
archetype” very studied by the anthropologist Joseph Campbell. Every human
culture has heroes that help each one to develop certain characteristics of
personality to face the problems of life.
Since the
last period of postmodern era, several people and nations were compelled by the
rise of ancient and communal archetypes after the beginning of the most recent “globalization”.
Nowadays it
happens again in different directions and targets. Some nations want to be “more
isolated”, some others want to bind to others, and so on…
In
after-postmodern times they are trying to find their own historical and
cultural identities, individually and in common with their own people.
There is no
simple answer to this quest…
