Primordial image

1. Etymology

Primordial image is Sharp’s synonym redirect to archetypal-image. Samuels: primordial image → ARCHETYPE. Parallel stub: image-primordial.

2. Plain summary

Examples (exhaustive house list for this Index lemma — common primordial-image motifs named across Jung’s essays and standard Jungian lexica; not a claim that Jung’s CW contains only these):
Sharp redirect AIM; Samuels → ARCHETYPE; synonym path; parallel image-primordial; dual-stamp AIM only.

3. Academic elucidation

Hub entry. Authority and §5 sample: archetypal-image (AIM folded). No new primordial-image leaf stamps this pass.

4. Lexicon

Sharp (1991)

Primordial image. See archetypal image.

(Sharp, 1991)

Samuels, Shorter & Plaut (1986) — primordial image redirect 113 neighborhood):

primordial image See ARCHETYPE.

(Samuels, Shorter, & Plaut, 1986/2013)

5. CW concordance — sample, not exhaustive

• AIM-1 CW 8 On the Nature of the Psyche ¶414 p.274 1947/1969
• AIM-2 CW 9i Psychology of the Child Archetype ¶267 p.157 1940/1968

See also: archetypal-image; image-primordial; motif; archetype (no polished leaf — prose).

References

Jung, C. G. (1969). On the nature of the psyche. In H. Read, M. Fordham, G. Adler, & W. McGuire (Eds.), The collected works of C. G. Jung (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.) (2nd ed., Vol. 8, p. 274, ¶414). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1947)

Jung, C. G. (1968). The psychology of the child archetype. In H. Read, M. Fordham, G. Adler, & W. McGuire (Eds.), The collected works of C. G. Jung (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.) (2nd ed., Vol. 9, Pt. 1, p. 157, ¶267). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1940)

Samuels, A., Shorter, B., & Plaut, F. (1986). A critical dictionary of Jungian analysis. Routledge.

Sharp, D. (1991). Jung lexicon: A primer of terms & concepts. Inner City Books.