- [[{1.4a3} archetypes are a way of organizing a set of things you might experience]]
- mother embodies the collective unconscious ([[{1.5} jung's model of the psyche]]) and is connected to the [[{1.4a3b} eros and logos|eros]] principle.
- she is connected to life force, creativity, possibility, renewal, and rebirth.
- father is connected to the [[{1.4a3b} eros and logos|logos]] principle and “opposes the instinctual tendency of the unconscious” (pg. 33) – that is, he is more interested in developing a relationship with the external world.
- he is connected to authority, responsibility, tradition, preservation, commandments, and prohibitions.
- these are *archetypes*, meaning they are not actual our parents, but representations we have or make of them.