The Seba library treats Psychoid Archetype in 8 passages, across 5 authors (including Jung, C. G. and Pauli, Wolfgang, Romanyshyn, Robert D., Edinger, Edward F.).
The archetype as such is a psychoid factor that belongs, as it were, to the invisible, ultra violet end of the psychic spectrum. It does not appear, in itself, to be capable of reaching consciousness.
Jung's own foundational definition: the archetype in itself is a psychoid, transcendent factor that is structurally unconscious and unrepresentable, appearing to consciousness only in derivative variations.
, The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche, 1955thesis
The crisis of language that the psychoid archetype introduces is no less challenging today than the crisis of language introduced with the original notion of the unconscious more than a hundred years ago.
Romanyshyn argues that the psychoid archetype, as a 'neutral third' underlying both matter and psyche, demands an entirely new language that neither conventional psychology nor physics has yet produced.
, The Wounded Researcher: Research with Soul in Mind, 2007thesis
It is through the archetype that we come closest to this early, 'irrepresentable,' psychoid stage of conscious development; indeed, the archetype itself gives us direct intimations of it.
Edinger locates the psychoid archetype at the evolutionary threshold of consciousness, where meaningful coincidence between psychic and physical events occurs prior to any observer capable of recognizing it.
, The New God-Image: A Study of Jung's Key Letters Concerning the Evolution of the Western God-Image, 1996thesis
Jung maps the psyche as a spectrum, with the archetype at the ultraviolet end and the instinct at the infrared end.
Stein explicates Jung's spectral model in which the psychoid archetype occupies the pole furthest from instinct and from consciousness, functioning as spirit rather than as biological drive.
, Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction, 1998supporting
This archetypal principle that functions as an observing subject is 'constituted in a way that we cannot conceive.' It is, moreover, 'at one and the same time, absolute subjectivity and universal truth.'
Romanyshyn traces Jung's radical re-visioning of the archetype toward a psychoid principle that functions as universal subject, compelling a move beyond collective unconscious toward a domain that leads psychology into soul.
, The Wounded Researcher: Research with Soul in Mind, 2007supporting
Psychologically, however, the archetype as an image of instinct is a spiritual goal toward which the whole nature of man strives; it is the sea to which all rivers
Jung articulates the archetype's dual function as simultaneously representing instinct and pointing beyond it toward spirit, establishing the conceptual ground for the psychoid archetype's mediating position.
, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, 1960supporting
Archetypes and instincts are becoming connected at this level, and as the idea moves into the Shadow Quaternio, it takes on more and more instinctual and embodied attributes.
Stein traces the descent of archetypal organizing principles through successive psychic levels until they reach the material substrate of the body, illustrating the psychoid continuum from spirit to matter.
, Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction, 1998supporting
the indissoluble bond between subject and object means there is always that gap between what one says and what wants to be spoken, between what we are able to make present and what remains absent
Romanyshyn's phenomenological account of the subject-object bond implicitly frames the epistemological problem that the psychoid archetype's transcendence of that boundary poses for research and language.
, The Wounded Researcher: Research with Soul in Mind, 2007aside