Military culture: Understanding deeper dynamics through the warrior archetype
This paper proposes a new psycho-sociological approach to understanding military culture change, built on the notion of warrior archetype, in line with psychiatrist Carl Jung’s concept of archetype. It contends that military culture and its related institutional forms fundamentally seek to mobilize...
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This paper proposes a new psycho-sociological approach to understanding military culture change, built on the notion of warrior archetype, in line with psychiatrist Carl Jung’s concept of archetype. It contends that military culture and its related institutional forms fundamentally seek to mobilize on an ongoing basis human energy produced through the activation of the warrior archetype. The archetype is built on enhancing feelings of strength in numbers, and empowerment through socially sanctioned actions and potential use of violence. It uses the example of the Canadian Armed Forces culture change effort to illustrate that any such planned organizational culture change will fail if it does not remain consistent with activating the warrior archetype, as its central dynamic and purpose.
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| spelling | doaj.art-314d4ee101a941f69870b18104f72e3c2024-04-11T11:17:43ZengCarol I National Defence University Publishing HouseBulletin of "Carol I" National Defense University2284-936X2284-93782024-04-0113110.53477/2284-9378-24-01Military culture: Understanding deeper dynamics through the warrior archetypeEric OUELLET0Department of Defence Studies with the Royal Military College of Canada and the Canada Forces College in Toronto This paper proposes a new psycho-sociological approach to understanding military culture change, built on the notion of warrior archetype, in line with psychiatrist Carl Jung’s concept of archetype. It contends that military culture and its related institutional forms fundamentally seek to mobilize on an ongoing basis human energy produced through the activation of the warrior archetype. The archetype is built on enhancing feelings of strength in numbers, and empowerment through socially sanctioned actions and potential use of violence. It uses the example of the Canadian Armed Forces culture change effort to illustrate that any such planned organizational culture change will fail if it does not remain consistent with activating the warrior archetype, as its central dynamic and purpose. https://revista.unap.ro/index.php/bulletin/article/view/1838ArchetypeCanadian Armed ForcesCarl Jungmilitary cultureorganizational behaviorpsychology |
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| title | Military culture: Understanding deeper dynamics through the warrior archetype |
| title_full | Military culture: Understanding deeper dynamics through the warrior archetype |
| title_fullStr | Military culture: Understanding deeper dynamics through the warrior archetype |
| title_full_unstemmed | Military culture: Understanding deeper dynamics through the warrior archetype |
| title_short | Military culture: Understanding deeper dynamics through the warrior archetype |
| title_sort | military culture understanding deeper dynamics through the warrior archetype |
| topic | Archetype Canadian Armed Forces Carl Jung military culture organizational behavior psychology |
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