What’s an archetype?!

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The fourth album of a metal band ”Fear Factory”.

But is also

• A statement, or pattern of behavior, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated. (to emulate – to copy, to immitate)

• The Platonic philosophical idea, referring to pure forms which embody the fundamental characteristics of a thing.

• In Jungian psychology, archetypes refer to a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches.

• Archetypes can refer to a constantly recurring symbol or motif in literature, painting or mythology. This usage of the term draws from both comparative anthropology and Jungian archetypal theory.

Carl Jung

Mythological archetypes• Culture hero • Death deity• Earth Mother• First man or woman• Hero• Life-death-rebirth deity• Lunar deity• Psychopomp• Sky father• Solar deity• Trickster• Underworld

Define the mythological archetype

Prometheus

Hercules

Guess the place

Hades

Adam and Eve

Jesus Christ

Ra

Zeus

That’s is, folks!