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Archetypes
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- Wearing martial arts outfits, the cast of archetypes includes a blushing ingénue.
- Was in a toxic department with several of the archetypes above.
- They find themselves adopting one or more of four archetypes for innovation.
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Word Origin & History
archetype
"original pattern from which copies are made," 1540s, from L. archetypum, from Gk. arkhetypon "pattern, model," neut. of adj. arkhetypos "first-moulded," from arkhe- "first" (see archon) + typos "model, type, blow, mark of a blow." Jungian psychology sense of "pervasive idea
EXPANDor image from the collective unconscious" is from 1919.
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Medical Dictionary
archetype ar·che·type (är'kĭ-tīp')
n.
An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned.
In Jungian psychology, an inherited pattern of thought or symbolic image that is derived from the past collective experience of humanity and is present in the unconscious of the individual. Also called imago.
ar'che·typ'al (-tī'pəl) or ar'che·typ'ic (-tĭp'ĭk) or ar'che·typ'i·cal adj.
ar'che·typ'i·cal·ly adv.
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archetype [(ahr-ki-teyep)]An original model after which other similar things are patterned. In the psychology of Carl Jung, archetypes are the images, patterns, and symbols that rise out of the collective unconscious and appear in dreams, mythology, and fairy tales.
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