Who Uses ARAS?
The ARAS archive is designed for and used by a diverse range of people: – Students and scholars from around the world in the humanities and other related disciplines, who use the archive as a research tool and educational resource – Artists and designers, who seek motifs and iconographic forms for paintings, decorations, films, and dramatic productions – Individuals who trace mythology, dream imagery, and vision in seeking deep common linkages, which transcend nation and ideology – Analysts and psychotherapists who come from the full range of psychological perspectives and who use the archive to increase their own knowledge of archetypal symbolism. Many scholars from around the world have visited ARAS. Erich Neumann, in his The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype (Princeton, 1955) mined ARAS for images of ancient goddesses to explore the archetype of the feminine as it evolved over the centuries from ancient Sumeria and Egypt into the modern era. Two volumes have been published
