Archetypes

Word ARCHETYPES
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Definitions and meanings of "Archetypes"

What do we mean by archetypes?

An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype.

An ideal example of something; a quintessence.

A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.

According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.

(textual criticism) A protograph.

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The word "archetypes" in example sentences

But there are what we call archetypes that pretty much fit the bill for most everybody across the board. ❋ Unknown (2006)

One of Nora Roberts 'heroine archetypes is the introverted, bookish, over-smart girl. ❋ Nalini Singh (2009)

Lovecraft knew that certain archetypes are imbedded in our consciousness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Partly this may be just a matter of modality: artists (to dabble in archetypes) party hard and throw tomatoes; poets hide and turn their anger inward: both strategies might be forms of avoidance. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The trick with archetypes is to change the metaphor, shift the relationships between them; transform that Trojan Horse to a Dionysus brought in chains into the city, a prisoner of Pentheus, the King of Tears, the monomaniac Might and Power and Glory of every King of Gods and God of Kings, already enthroned in the Black Iron Prison of his Empire ... waiting to be dethroned. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

So the Catholic Church’s viewpoint is that if you are attracted to the same sex and not to the opposite sex, you should do your best to purge yourself of all sexual desire and channel that into a vigorous relationship with the main archetypes of the Catholic Church. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I don’t think that I’ve read enough books to be able to compare … though what I do look for is similarities in archetypes/symbolism since I read Women Who Run With Wolves. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Certain archetypes or types appear and reappear in novels, not because they’re tired or the authors are lazy, but because they’re necessary. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The archetypes are a way to think about your life, and your past, and what happened, and the journey ahead, with a feeling of camaraderie that you are truly part of the collective unconscious and not alone in your efforts to actualize into your greatest and truest expression of yourself. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These roles, also called archetypes, stay with us for our entire lives. ❋ Nicholas Lore (2008)

The creators have used other such tricks, particularly by incorporating themes and symbols that possess a potent emotional charge: in other words, archetypes. ❋ Lynn Picknett (2006)

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