Please introduce tarot card in detail, be specific.

Carl Jung was the first psychologist to face tarot cards directly. He regards tarot cards as a symbolic prototype: the basic types or situations of human beings are all implied in all human subconscious behaviors. For example, "emperor" is the symbol of the highest authority (parents) or the image of father.

This prototype theory has triggered many psychological uses. Some psychologists ask patients to choose a tarot card that suits them to determine how patients view themselves. Some psychologists try to use tarot images to make patients understand his thoughts by imagining his situation or relationship: is it as sharp as "knight's words"? Or is it as blind and evasive as "TwoofSwords" in RWS (there-wait-Smith) series? Tarot cards can be regarded as subconscious algebra and can be analyzed at the level of consciousness.

Interestingly, previous tarot cards, such as Visconti-sforza and Marseille, are often rougher and less algebraic than modern tarot cards. This is not only an illusion from a modern point of view, but also reflects the general direction of the evolution and change of Tarot art in previous centuries, especially since 1900. The symbolic meaning of tarot cards has been very successfully popularized from the beginning.

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People who generally don't know tarot cards either think that tarot cards are difficult to be elegant or think that tarot cards have mysterious power. But both views are wrong. First of all, tarot theory has a long history and is closely related to western mysticism. For example, mysticism of Gnosticism, Kabbalah numerology of Judaism, western astrology and ancient western myth system are all related to tarot cards, and * * * together constitute the image of tarot cards. The image on the surface of tarot cards is a good medium to trigger contact and intuition, so many tarot card researchers regard tarot cards as excellent "intuition transmitters". But even if the tarot card has such rich connotations, it is still only a useful "tool" and does not have any mysterious power in itself. The divinity of tarot cards can be explained by the synchronization principle of psychologist Carl Jung. All the solutions in the world exist in the collective subconscious of human beings, and the 22 big cards of tarot cards are the prototype images in the collective subconscious. The mystery of the collective subconscious is presented to us through tarot cards. As long as we make a faithful interpretation, we can get a lot of inspiration and make accurate predictions.

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"... the only purpose of human existence is to light a bright flame in the pure darkness of freedom. "

-Jung

Jung's universal influence shows that his main theoretical propositions include the study of collective unconsciousness and prototype, which is the core of his literary aesthetics and psychology.

Collective unconsciousness

The theory of "collective unconsciousness" is the development of Freud's theory of unconsciousness. Although Jung also acknowledged the concept of unconsciousness, he disagreed with Freud's view that unconsciousness is an irrational sexual impulse. As a psychologist and psychiatrist, on the basis of clinical practice and extensive reading, Jung found that many phenomena seemed to be the collective experience of primitive society rather than personal experience, so he believed that all people not only had personal unconsciousness, but also had collective unconsciousness. So Freund's concept of unconsciousness was expanded and divided into "individual unconsciousness" and "collective unconsciousness". The so-called "collective unconsciousness", in Jung's words, "is not acquired by individuals, but the common psychological function preserved by the heritage, that is, the content produced by the inherited brain structure. These are all kinds of mythical associations-those motives and images that can be reproduced in every era and place without historical legends and migration. " In other words, "collective unconsciousness" refers to the long-term accumulation of universal psychological experience handed down from generation to generation since primitive society. "It is neither produced by personal experience nor acquired by individuals, but born." This is a field of impersonal image preserved in human experience and repeated constantly. If consciousness is some small islands above the water surface, and individual unconsciousness is exposed to the land part below the water surface due to tides, then collective unconsciousness, like the vast seabed, has more internal and profound significance.

In Jung's view, only when artists become "collective people" can they really see the deepest rhythm of human heart. In this sense, all great art is not a product of individual consciousness, but a collective unconscious creation. Just as Goethe did not create Faust, it was the Faust spirit of the German nation that created Goethe. Not so much Leonardo da Vinci, but Michelangelo, Botticelli and so on. Who created the immortal works will go down in history, but some collective unconsciously completed their artistic understanding, making it possible for them to leave The Last Supper, Moses and The Birth of Venus to the gallery of art history.

prototype theory

The important concept related to the artist's collective unconsciousness is prototype. Jung called the content of the collective unconscious primitive image. The word primitive image means a primitive model, and other similar beings are formed according to this model. The synonym of primitive image is prototype. In the prototype of the collective unconscious, Jung pointed out that "prototype is a form in Plato's philosophy", which refers to an innate tendency in the collective unconscious, a predetermined factor in psychological tests, and a generally consistent transcendental form of all psychological reactions, which enables individuals to act in a similar situation faced by their original ancestors.

Although the prototype belongs to the collective unconscious, it can be experienced as an impression image. There are a lot of archetypes in every kind of collective unconscious. The same prototype may have some changes in details or names, but its core meaning is basically the same, which meets some common psychological requirements of human beings. For example, the archetypes such as hero, mother earth, wise old man and devil appear frequently in the works, and their internal meanings are relatively unified. For example, there are many works with the theme of the Virgin Mary in western art, such as Ganges Sand, but there is no end, because they face a deep and bottomless collective unconscious, echoing the endless love of human beings for their mothers, and thus have immortal charm.