Introduction
Almost 100 years ago, a psychologist Carl Jung began to notice that his patients had similar characters showing up in their dreams. He began to categorize the characters and called them archetypes. Since then, people have used this idea of archetypes to identify and classify characters in all kinds of stories. These characters that show up in dreams have similar characteristics. These archetypes or characters have something that motivates them or that they love and something that they hate. For example, the Innocent loves freedom and hates being punished. Here is the list of the archetypes and what they love and hate:1. The Innocent........free...........punish
2. The Orphan..........equal........alone
3. The Hero..............courage....weak
4. The Caregiver......love..........selfish
5. The Explorer........explore.....trapped
6. The Shadow.........revenge.....powerless
7. The Beloved........intimacy....unwanted
8. The Artist............vision.........plain
9. The Trickster.......live............bored
10. The Teacher.......truth..........fooled
11. The Mage..........dream........consequence
12. The Ruler..........power........chaos
Instruction
The activity for this lesson will be something called automatic drawing. Automatic drawing was developed by Surrealist artists as a means by which to release their creativity locked in their subconcisous. They would draw for a length of time without stopping. These drawings would be random markings. In our activity we are going to adopt the continuous model of automatic drawing, but we are going to focus on the archetypes for 2 minutes.Activity
For 2 minutes continuously draw each archetypes. Remember, what each archetype loves and hates.Now you will have 12 drawings, but there is a last drawing you will randomly take two of the archetypes and merge them into one archetype. For example, the Shadow Teacher is two archetypes.
