Jungian Archetypes - Chronology

Chronology

The intuition that there was more to the psyche than individual experience possibly began in Jung's childhood. The very first dream he could remember was that of an underground phallic god. His research on schizophrenia later supported his early intuition about the existence of universal psychic structures that underlie all human experience and behavior. Jung first referred to these as "primordial images" — a term he borrowed from Jacob Burckhardt. Later in 1917 Jung called them "dominants of the collective unconscious." It was not until 1919 that he first used the term "archetypes" in an essay titled "Instinct and the Unconscious". A main part of the chronology of Jung's discovery of the archetypes is found in the Redbook which documented Jung being in touch with the archetypes and collective unconsciousness.