The Seba library treats Archaic Identity in 8 passages, across 3 authors (including von Franz, Marie-Louise, Jung, Carl Gustav, Jung, C. G.).
one must let the first phase of archaic identification run its course; and if I understand Jung aright, he himself did this as well.
Von Franz argues that archaic identity in the analyst is clinically necessary and should not be prematurely dissolved, as it serves the patient's unconscious needs.
, Psychotherapy, 1993thesis
Projection results from the archaic identity (q.v.) of subject and object, but is properly so called only when the need to dissolve the identity with the object has already arisen.
Jung provides the canonical definition: projection presupposes archaic identity and only becomes 'projection' when differentiation is demanded.
, Psychological Types, 1921thesis
projection stems in the last analysis from that original, universal psychological phenomenon which Jung calls "archaic identity," a state in which primitive man, the child and, to a degree, every adult as well is not differentiated from his environment.
Von Franz summarises archaic identity as the universal undifferentiated condition underlying all projection, affecting primitive man, child, and adult alike.
, C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time, 1975thesis
The projections we so often encounter in practical analysis are only residues of this original identity of subject and object.
Jung characterises analytical projections as survivals of the original archaic identity between subject and object.
, Psychological Types, 1921supporting
The relation of identity (q.v.) with an object, or participation mystique (q.v.), is likewise archaic. Concretism (q.v.) of thought and feeling is archaic; also compulsion and inability to control oneself.
Jung maps archaic identity onto a cluster of primitive psychological traits — participation mystique, concretism, compulsion — that define the archaic stratum of the psyche.
, Psychological Types, 1921supporting
The personification of lifeless things is a remnant of primitive and archaic psychology. It is caused by unconscious identity, or what Lévy-Bruhl called participation mystique.
Jung links archaic identity to Lévy-Bruhl's participation mystique and shows its persistence in alchemical personification of matter.
, Collected Works Volume 3: The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease, 1907supporting
Identification with parents or the closest members of the family is a normal phenomenon in so far as it coincides with the a priori family identity. In this case it is better not to speak of identification but of identity.
Jung distinguishes primary familial identity — a form of archaic identity — from secondary identification, grounding the concept in normal developmental psychology.
, Psychological Types, 1921supporting
identity, unconscious, 37 see also participation mystique
An index entry cross-referencing unconscious identity with participation mystique confirms the conceptual linkage in Jung's broader corpus.
, Civilization in Transition, 1964aside