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(n.)An original model or type after which other similar things are…
(n.)An ideal example of a type; quintessence: an archetype of the…
(n.)In Jungian psychology, an inherited pattern of thought or symbolic…
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An archetype (pronounced /ˈɑrkɪtaɪp/ ) is an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype after which others are copied, patterned, or emulated; a symbol universally recognized by...
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Archetypes are, according to Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, innate universal psychic dispositions that form the substrate from which the basic themes of human life emerge. Each stage is mediated throu...
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Essay on Jung's personality theory by Dr. C. George Boeree. ... The archetype has no form of its own, but it acts as an "organizing principle" on the things we see or do. It works the way that instincts work in Freud's theory: At first, the baby just wants something to eat, without knowing what it wants.
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The term "archetype" thus applies only indirectly to the "representations collectives," [universal, primordial symbols] since it designates only those psychic contents which have not yet been submitted to conscious elaboration and are therefore an immediate datum of psychic experience.
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Joseph Campbell, in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, identified both the archetype of the Hero and the quest that the hero follows, in many of the folk tales and myths of the world. This archetype, and it's journey was surprisingly invariant through many of the tales.
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