What Are Your Inner Family Archetypes?
How do you respond to life? At your best, are you constructive, outgoing, and motivated? Are you reserved, intuitive, and caring? Do you mother everyone? When things don't go your way, do you get angry or depressed? Do you get anxious in groups for no apparent reason? Do you feel like you don't fit in?
The placement of archetypal energies describes a lot of the personality differences between people. It reveals hidden opportunities in relationships and also maps out conflict vulnerabilities.
All four archetypal energies may be familiar to you.
To understand your specific archetypal pattern, however,
you need to figure out which of the four energies is the
one you are most likely to feel through, think through,
aspire to, and reject.
The archetypal description that best matches how you think becomes your conscious archetype. The description that best matches how you feel, along with your childhood experience, becomes your subconscious archetype. The description that you aspire to and through which you put your best foot forward represents your superconscious archetype. The one that is most unappealing to you is likely to be your unconscious archetype.
While you are thinking about how your archetypes line up on your four levels of self, remember that the same archetype cannot be assigned simultaneously to more than one level of self. Then consider your family myth socialization pattern. It will match one of the energies described by Boychild, Mother, or Girlchild, over the others.
Ready to determine your inner family archetypes? Below are descriptions of the characteristics of each inner family archetype.
| Father ~ Tend to have strong boundaries, pursue
the law, and seek to download a blueprint for every
situation. Pursue righteousness and attempt to bring
forth principle, justice, and fair play into day-to-day
interactions. Always want to know where everything
stands. Hypercritical with yourself and thrive on
severe discipline. As a child, you were severely
criticized whenever you made a mistake or treated
like you should have already grown up. Sometimes
feel that God is criticizing you and that the universe
is very harsh and unfair. (Father cannot
be chosen as a conscious archetype.) |
Mother ~ Strive to guide and nurture by teaching the "who, what, where, when, and why" of things. Find it easier to love humanity than to love people individually. The universe seems to withold its nurturing and abundance when you are having a rough time. Nurturing, mature, and adult deep down inside. Become aloof when feelings are hurt. Took on a lot of responsibility as a child. People treated you as a little grownup and expected you to meet some of their needs. Looking for unconditional love from God and others. |
| Boychild ~ Believe that you have a destiny to carry out even if you are insecure about making it happen. Aspire to be a hero and champion causes even when you lack the wherewithall to make things happen. Can become fanatical about your ideas. Competitive, even if you do not act on your competive drive. Comfortable when you feel in control of a situation. As a child, you were tough, active, and sometimes combative. Relate to God as a savior who is there for you in a personal way. |
Girlchild ~ Care deeply about things. Extremely sensitive emotionally. Gentle at heart and forgiving. Often get picked on and teased. Want to care for everyone. Find it hard to stay focused or be on time. Often misunderstood or brutalized by others and respond by complaining or becoming resentful. As a child, you liked to spend a lot of time daydreaming. Find that others take advantage of you or swindle you in business. Want God to manifest as Spirit moving through life. |
Once you have chosen an inner family archetype for your conscious and subconscious levels of self, you can read about the eight primary patterns of behavior that people function through below. Note that none of the patterns can have two adult archetypes. So if Father or Mother are subconsciously assigned, Boychild or Girlchild rule the conscious mind. (pages below will open in new window)
Inner family archetypes manifest themselves negatively as well as in a positive sense. We call this manifestation the unloving/unloved aspect. Why We Do What We Do further explains the negative manifestations and the conscious, subconscious, superconscious, unconscious, and socialization patterns of behavior.
We hope you have enjoyed learning about your own inner family archetypes. If you are having trouble determining what your inner family archetypes are, contact us so that we may help you.
Disclaimer: This is an intuitive self-assessment. The questions and information on this site are only intended to guide and provide an archetypal frame of reference. This assessment does not in any way constitute a psychological evaluation or a diagnosis.
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