ARAS, the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism, is a cross-cultural image archive holding approximately eighteen thousand photographic images of archetypal symbolism, each cross-indexed and accompanied by scholarly commentary. The archive's origins lie in Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn's photographic collection assembled for the Eranos meetings in Ascona beginning in the 1930s. Today the National ARAS office is housed at the C.G. Jung Center on East 39th Street in New York, with cultural-archive sites at the C.G. Jung Institutes of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and a fully searchable digital archive online.
Focus areas
Programs
- National ARAS reference archive (New York)
- Cultural archives at C.G. Jung Institutes of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago
- Online searchable image archive
- Scholarly commentary publication
Depth orientation
ARAS is the standing visual library of analytical psychology — the place analysts, scholars, and amplifiers of dream material go to follow a symbol through its cultural and historical lineage, with commentary written by working clinicians and scholars.