 The discernment of an archetypal situation is a consciousness of a relational pattern that is present within the ecology of experience passed through the collective history that contrasts with the immediate pattern of individual decision or with a prevailing cultural pattern.Archetypal patterns are not just words and stories, but living truths and psychological realities that build upon human connections—"soul", according to Carl Jung—and use symbolic language.The life of the other functions symbolically and it's in the encounter with this life that generates the contrasts at the foundations of new consciousness.