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Psychoanalytic Anthropology

The study of “Psychoanalytic Anthropology” has brought a transcendental revolution in the fields of Archaeology and Anthropology. This new Anthropology encompasses the study of the symbolic archetypes which have appeared, in an universal and perennial way, in the religious, mythological and philosophical terrain of all ancient cultures. Dr. c. G. Jung clearly stated that great truths of transcendental type are enclosed in the world of the symbolic archetypes, and he added that these truths can shed light about the enigmas that have always disquieted the psyche of the human being.

This Psychoanalytic Anthropology allows us to extract -by means of psychoanalysis- from different archaeological remains -niches, tombs, pyramids, manuscripts, papyri, etc- the psychological principles contained in them.

Examples of various archaeological remains include the Mexican codices, the Assyrian bricks, the Dead Sea Scrolls, strange parchments, some very ancient temples, sacred monoliths, old hieroglyphs, millenary sepulchres, etc, which offer, in their symbolic depth, a Gnostic sense which, definitively, escapes a literal interpretation for they have never had an exclusively intellectual meaning.

The items below exemplify the various themes of study related to Psychoanalytic Anthropology.

Themes of Study:

• Concept of Anthropology.
• Areas of Anthropology: Physical, cultural, social, etiological areas, etc.
• Anthropology and related sciences: Psychology, sociology, history, statistics, archaeology, history of religions, mythology, etc.
• Totemism as a cultural ancestral phenomenon. Its symbolic significance. Its theological reality. Veracity and relation of Totemism with the metaphysical or supernatural world. Totemism and modern life. Social modern-day concepts about this phenomenon.
• Ritual and folkloric dances. Their origin, and their theological, philosophical, mythological and social implications.
• The serpentine Cults. Their inherence in all the civilizations of the past.
• The cults to nature. The veneration of the four fundamental elements of nature -water, land, air and fire. Ceremonial, metaphysical and social connotations of such cults. The cult to fertility. Myths, legends and sexual rites of the cultures all over the world. Depth and veracity of those cults in the ideological and psychological formation of the ancient folk groups. Incidence of such cults in the formation of the social status of ancient civilizations.
• The death in the ancient traditions. Psychological and philosophical inherence of the phenomenon of death. The burial as historic and social phenomenon of the ancient peoples. Metaphysical relations in the funeral ceremonials. The death and its relation with the idiosyncrasy of ancient cultures.
• Symbolisms and rites of the archaic peoples. Theological symbology. Graphic and spoken symbology. Numeric symbology. The attires wore by the social classes of the past as part of the symbols of that time.
• Treatises and sacred books of the cultures of the past. Comparative study of religions and mystic traditions of the nations. Parallelisms and similarities of linguistic or ideological type.
• The art as an anthropological expression. Ideas and messages transmitted to posterity by means of the royal art. When the art is put at the service of the theological revelation. Objective art and subjective art. Figurative art and symbolic art, differences and philosophical connotations of both expressions. The art and the archetypical world according to the philosophical connotations of both expressions. The art and the archetypical world of C. G. Jung.
• The laws of evolution and involution. Application of these laws to the races and to humanity's social and historic phenomena. Evolution and involution of the traditions of the ancient civilizations.
• The concept of good and evil. The objective study of the relativity of these terms. Good and evil in the light of ethics. The relation of these concepts with the political and social trajectory of the folk groups.
• Civilizations of Orient and Occident -Egypt, China, India, Tibet, Persia, Babylon, Greece, Rome, Scandinavia, Etruria, Mexico, Peru, as well as those that are inherent to Africa and Oceania. Fundamental achievements of these civilizations of the ancient history of man.
• The concepts of space, hyper-space and time. Phenomena that are linked to time and space within the archaic traditions. Astronomic calculations, calendars and research about the celestial mechanics.
• The universal sound. Its implications in the folklore of the nations. Dances and sacred songs. The effects of the sound in the man's psyche. Sound and idiosyncrasy of cultures. The sound and the magic or supernatural concepts.
• Consciousness and unconsciousness as anthropological moral values of humanity through history. The value of ethic in the history of anthropology.
• The value of the word in the ancient traditions. The relation between sensations and perceptions with the appearing of the language. Religious implications of the word. Study of the linguistic and semantic value of the theological terms of ancient cultures.