Adam Klocek participated in the conference of the Czech Society for Analytical Psychology, which was held in Prague from October 6 to October 8, 2023 with a paper that he created in collaboration with Martina Klocková from the Faculty of Medicine Brno. The paper focused on caring for the “soul” of the group and linked social network analysis and archetype classification.
Contribution
The theme of the paper was along the lines of the idea of applying social network analysis to data in a new context, namely to link this method with some concepts from analytical psychotherapy. A sample of 56 people answered the question: “If you had to describe yourself as one emotion and one fabulous being, what would you be?” We then classified the answers provided using the theory of the four masculine and feminine archetypes, looking also for potential split-off instinctual aspects and potential aspects of the self in the answers. We further classified each respondent’s primary archetype according to the presence of a shadow archetype, the maturity of the archetypal form, and the active or passive polarity of that form. The most common primary archetype identified was “magician.” Subsequently, respondents completed a questionnaire where they expressed their level of liking or antipathy towards the representations of all other respondents. The sub-classification criteria subsequently served as covariates in the estimated Exponential Random Graph Model. In addition, we performed the social network analysis on a matrix of only positive interactions and then separately on a matrix of only negative interactions. The results suggest that the network of positive ties was denser than the network of negative ties, the ties were more reciprocal, and the network had less of a single core and periphery structure. The more popular representations of the respondent were those with positive emotion, a mature modality of the primary archetype. The rest of the results can be read in our presentation in the “Downloads” section of the website.