The Archetype is as numerous as are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.
The Archetype is a basic pattern that generates all our psychological and emotional complexity, usually without our conscious knowledge.
The Archetype is a primordial, mythological figure or image that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history.
The Archetype is like a deeply carved bed of a river that is dried up only because the water has deserted it, though it may return at any time.
The Archetype is one, thus it contains a residual mystery as something which can't ever be completely analyzed or understood.
An Archetype is a symbol which connects one poem with another and thereby helps to unify and integrate our literary experience.
The Archetype is particularly concerned with literature as a social fact and as a technique of communication.
The Archetype is, in spite of their conservative nature, not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!.