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A symbol, usually an image, which recurs often enough in literature to be recognizable as an element of one's literary experience as a whole. Carl Jung used the term "archetype" to refer to the generalized patterns of images that form the world of human representations in recurrent motifs, passing through the history of all culture. ...
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Used most often in pathworking. Universal symbols which are defined as standard prototypes. Archetypical symbols are subconscious images that form our dreams, the power of our deities, and allows all forms of divination to be possible.
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The term has sources in anthropology and Jungian Theory. It is a "primordial image" residing in the collective imagination of a people, expressed in myths and in the figurative dimension of literature: exile, rebirth, earth goddess, etc.
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Character in a work of literature, film or television, demonstrating the qualities of a type eg hero or villain.
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