A strategy based on a particular card or set of cards in the TCG Certain archetypal decks are usually very strong, and thus certain archetypes, such as Raindance and Haymaker, have become very popular See our pages on archetypes
An original model of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated; a prototype
An original model or pattern from which other later copies are made, especially a character, an action, or situation that seems to represent common patterns of human life generally Often, archetypes include a symbol, a theme, a setting, or a character that some critics think have a common meaning in an entire culture, or even the entire human race Archetypes recur in different times and places in myth, literature, folklore, dreams, and rituals The psychologist Carl Jung believed that the archetype originates in the collective unconscious of mankind in shared experiences of a race, such as birth, death, love, family life, struggles--all of which would be expressed in the subconscious of an individual who would recreate them in myths, dreams, and literature The study of these archetypes in literature is known as archetypal criticism or mythic criticism Archetypes are also called universal symbols
A person, story, concept, or object that is based on a known archetype; an archetypal character
To depict as, model using or otherwise associate a subject or object with an archetype
According to the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, a universal pattern of thought, present in an individuals unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity
An original model from which anything is made There are archetypes in mental matter of all the different forms in the dense world They are not merely models, but are living things, creative moulds, and fashion the forms in their own likeness
something in the world, and described in literature, that, according to the psychologist Karl Jung, manifests a dominant theme in the collective unconscious of human beings Northrop Frye in his Anatomy of Criticism argues for a taxonomy of consciously literary archetypes in Western literature See symbol
Character in a work of literature, film or television, demonstrating the qualities of a type e g hero or villain
An archetype is something that is considered to be a perfect or typical example of a particular kind of person or thing, because it has all their most important characteristics. He came to this country 20 years ago and is the archetype of the successful Asian businessman. = epitome. a perfect example of something, because it has all the most important qualities of things that belong to that type archetype of (archetypum, from , from archein ( ARCH-) + typos ). Primordial image, character, or pattern of circumstances that recurs throughout literature and thought consistently enough to be considered universal. Literary critics adopted the term from Carl Gustav Jung's theory of the collective unconscious. Because archetypes originate in pre-logical thought, they are held to evoke startlingly similar feelings in reader and author. Examples of archetypal symbols include the snake, whale, eagle, and vulture. An archetypal theme is the passage from innocence to experience; archetypal characters include the blood brother, rebel, wise grandparent, and prostitute with a heart of gold
(from St Augustine and Jacob Burkhardt's "primordial image"; also, a version of Levy-Bruhl's "representations collectives"): a constitutive prototype or form or Gestalt within the collective unconscious; a ruling "organ" of the psyche and Platonic blueprint for its activity Complexes of the collective unconscious Images and emotions (both must be present) The psychic form of preformed mechanism for the development of consciousness by ordering the chaos of perceptions into meaningful patterns Instinctive behavior pattern grounded in the fundamental structure of living matter Archetypes organize our perceptions, collect images, regulate, modify, motivate, and even develop conscious contents, plot the course of developments in advance, set up bridges between the ego and its instinctive and collective roots, lead the channeling and conversion of instinctual energy, and "represent the authentic element of spirit" and a "spiritual goal "
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