Is there decent evidence behind the concept of Jungian archetypes?
Jung didn't really play the science game, and Jungians continue not to play the science game, but if we squint a little, we can see that some of his ideas have been vindicated by science.
The term ‘archetype’ is often misunderstood as meaning certain definite mythological images or motifs. ... The archetype is a tendency to form such representations of a motif. ... My critics have incorrectly assumed that I am dealing with "inherited representations"
From Jung's Approaches to the unconscious (1964), quoted in Jones, Mixed Metaphors and Narrat...
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