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In my paper I referred to the many contradictory statements Jung made about what archetypes are. H. Balmer, a Swiss scholar who examined the archetypal theory, found over forty statements in Jung's work of what they are, many contradicting each other. However Jung was never able to prove their existence and has failed to verify his ideas through child observation or through analytic reconstruction, as Jeffrey Satinover observed (1986, p. 420). Jung thought he found many proofs, among them the fantasies of the so-called Solar Phallus Man. But as Sonu Shamdasani says ‘(t)he Solar Phallus Man, together with other figures, carried on his shoulders the weight and burden of