Apollo archetype
greek mythology | metaphors | psychology
According to Professor of psychiatry Jean Shinoda-Bolen:
"As an archetype, Apollo personifies the aspect of the personality that wants clear definitions, is drawn to master a skill, values order and harmony, and prefers to look at the surface rather than at what underlies appearances. The Apollo archetype favors thinking over feeling, distance over closeness, objective assessment over subjective intuition."Gods in Everyman: A New Psychology of Men’s Lives and Loves (1989) p.135 Harpur & Row
According to Dr. Shinoda-Bolen the archetypes do not belong to either gender. She states "women often find that a particular [male] god exists in them as well, just as I found that when I spoke about goddesses men could identify a part of themselves with a specific goddess. Gods and goddesses represent different qualities in the human psyche. The pantheon of Greek deities together, male and female, exist as archetypes in us all... There are gods and goddesses in everyperson."Gods in Everyman: A New Psychology of Men’s Lives and Loves (1989) p.x-xi Harpur & Row
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