Elaboration

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Elaboration is a term used by C. G. Jung to refer to the expression and interpretation (or reinterpretation) of Archetypes[1]

Related LP Terms

Elaboration > Primary Elaboration, Secondary Elaboration

Non-LP Related Terms

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Notes

Elaboration does not necessarily lead to an accurate representation of archetypal messages, since bias, self-interest, social class, gender, and so on, can interfere.[2]

See also Primary Elaboration and Secondary Elaboration.

Footnotes

  1. Carl J. Jung. ———. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Edited by Gerhard Adler, Sir Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, and William McGuire. Translated by R.F.C. Hull. 2nd ed. New York: Princeton University Press, 1980.
  2. Sosteric, Mike. “A Short Sociology of Archetypes,” Unpublished.