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An original model on which something is patterned
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archetype
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An archetype is a concept found in areas relating to behavior, modern psychological theory, and literary analysis. Archetype may also refer to: Archetype (information science) , a formal re-usable model of a domain concept Archetype (video game) , a first-person ...
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Archetype \Ar"che*type\ ([aum]r"k[-e]*t[imac]p), n. [L. archetypum, Gr. 'arche`typon, fr. 'arche`typos stamped first and as model; 'arche = 'archi + ty`pos stamp, figure, pattern, ty`ptein to strike: cf. F. arch['e]type. See Arch- ...
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n. 1 An original model of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated; a prototype 2 (context literature English) A character, story, or object that is based on a known character, story, or ...
Usage examples of archetype.
The death is necessary and is called for by the horse himself, making the horse a cousin to the Deer of native American myth, and ultimately to the figure of Christ, since they all give specific shape to the archetype of the Willing Sacrifice.
Persona is the archetype of interface between self and other, and is thus the basic archetype of all human society and culture.
Shadow is not the only archetype to be repressed and projected, however.
The Trickster is another archetype standing at the boundaries between consciousness and the unconscious.
Animal archetype that deserves special mention here is the Spirit Bird.
Again, the most immediately familiar example of this archetype comes from the traditions of Christian iconography.
It is often difficult for Christians to grasp that this archetype does not begin or end with the figure of Jesus.
This has led Joseph Campbell to suggest that one archetype of the Mandala is the archetype of differentiated, urban civilization itself.
As I float down the amphitheater, I hold the pieces aloft as a concrete example of the archetype of spiral, evolutionary development.
Another archetype lurks below the surface: that those who direct social enterprises are more intelligent than those nearer the bottom.
Pilgrims, history textbooks introduce the archetype of American exceptionalism.
The genial omissions and the invented details with which our textbooks retell the Pilgrim archetype are close cousins of the overt censorship practiced by the Massachusetts Department of Commerce in denying Frank James the right to speak.
Instead, their view of white-Indian relations is dominated by the archetype of the frontier line.
Our textbooks do not teach against the archetype of the savage Indian that pervades popular culture.
The archetype of African Americans as dependent on others begins here, in textbook treatments of Reconstruction.