archetype

is a basic pattern that generates all our psychological and emotional complexity, usually without our conscious knowledge.

Jung theorized that a small set of basic archetypal patterns generates all our psychological and emotional complexity, usually without our conscious knowledge.

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 primordial image, or archetype, is a figure-- be it a daemon, a human being, or a process-- that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure. . . . 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. . . . Carl Jung

is a symbol which connects one poem with another and thereby helps to unify and integrate our literary experience.

I mean by an archetype a symbol which connects one poem with another and thereby helps to unify and integrate our literary experience.

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!.

Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are 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! Carl Jung

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.

Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flowed the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return. Carl Jung

is one, thus it contains a residual mystery as something which can't ever be completely analyzed or understood.

one... something which can't ever be completely analysed or understood. There's a residual mystery about it.

is particularly concerned with literature as a social fact and as a technique of communication.

particularly concerned with literature as a social fact and as a technique of communication.

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.

There are as many archetypes as there 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. Carl Jung

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