"Home is a container, a place where you can be held. As Valerie Andrews writes in her new book, Our Story of Home, "Home isn't just four walls with a kitchen and a bed. It's a hope, a dream, an anthem. Something that lodges in the soul and stays with us despite any hardships we endure." As a universal experience, "home" can be considered an archetype."
"Carl Jung conceptualized archetypes as innate "blueprints" for universal experiences, the psychic expressions of instinctual behavior that organize how we perceive the world. These autonomous instincts, patterns, or behaviors, common across all eras, peoples, and places, express themselves through recurring feelings, thoughts, emotions, images, and symbols, coexisting in the unconscious along with our complexes-clusters of emotionally charged associations, related to specific themes, that emerge from our personal and cultural experiences."
"Where the Fantasy of "Home" Meets Lived Reality Given the archetype of "home," most of us can relate to the feeling that leaving or losing home can set you askew, eliciting vulnerability, fear, a feeling of threat or danger, and ungroundedness both literally and figuratively. This feeling intensifies depending on your personal experiences of home. When you have psychic energy and associations around "home," it can manifest as a kind of "home complex," which may be triggered at this time of year, for example,"
Home functions as an archetype and internal feeling that provides containment, belonging, and security. Personal experiences create complexes and associations around home that can trigger vulnerability, ungroundedness, and fear when home is lost or feels unsafe. Awareness, attunement, and safe relationships enable an internal sense of home to be experienced more positively. Attunement helps build emotional safety when home feels unfamiliar or emotionally fraught. Co-regulation offers biological calming and connection that restores a felt sense of home. Cultural and psychic patterns shape how individuals perceive and respond to themes of home across time and contexts.
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