Abstract:

A new trend in organizational psychology is to consider the organization’s psyche. There are instruments and theoretical frames in Jungian psychology to study the underlying purposefulness in organizational psychodynamics. We share with several other scholars the view what the human inclination to create organization is the expression of an archetype: that is to say that all organizations share a deep meaning and intentionality that lie beyond the sway of the egos of individual organizational members. This organizational archetype lives at the heart of all organizations making a communality; at the same time, the specific complexes, culture, processes, structure, goals and environment of a particular organization combine to make it unique. The archetype of organization points the organization towards what it can become, proving a blueprint for the wholeness. The members of the organization collectively and unconsciously carry the archetype of organization into the psychodynamic life of organization and it becomes imperfectly manifested through them and their actions individual and collective, conscious and unconscious.
The paper is a study case on plotting the university organization’s psyche to answer some cardinal questions as: why some individuals became so unidirectional in their professional and personal lives; are their psychic condition dominated by the archetypal meaning underline their organization’s psyche?

Keywords:

Organization’s psyche, archetype in universities’ psyche, unconscious influences.