On Archetypes

Plato

Similarly, the genuine archetypes, which are not situated at the psychic level, do not mutually exclude but comprise and imply one another.  According to the Platonic and hallowed meaning of the term, the archetypes are the source of being and knowledge and not, as Jung conceives them, unconscious dispositions to act and imagine.  The fact that the archetypes cannot be grasped by discursive thought has no connection with the irrational and obscure character of the supposed "collective unconscious", whose contents are said to be known only indirectly through their "eruptions" on the surface.  There is not only discursive thought, there is also intellectual intuition, and this attains to the archetypes from the starting point of thier symbols.

- from Modern Psychology, by Titus Burckhardt