Crossword clues for archetypal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Archetypal \Ar"che*ty`pal\, a.
Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or
ideal) or pattern; original. ``One archetypal mind.''
--Gudworth.
Note: Among Platonists, the archetypal world is the world as it existed as an idea of God before the creation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to an archetype.
WordNet
adj. representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned; "archetypal patterns"; "she was the prototypal student activist" [syn: archetypical, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical]
Usage examples of "archetypal".
I began to see that the subtlety, complexity, and basic dissimilarity of waking experience to deeper and more archetypal dreams and experiences within dreams might in itself be cause of forgetting.
Dream work practices of non-technological peoples around the world demonstrate certain archetypal similarities.
The consequences of this archetypal error are known, tragic, and continuing.
One way that this archetypal association manifests itself in dreams is that there is a tendency for the quality of light in dreams to be metaphoric of the quality of waking consciousness that has already been brought to the main theme of the dream.
In every case, from the most personal and idiosyncratic to the most collective and historical, the archetypal nature of the drama remains the same.
The Christian admonition to love our enemies and the older pagan admonition to know ourselves are at this level simply different ways of describing the same process of archetypal development.
The Anima is the archetypal woman in the psyche of every man, and the Animus is the archetypal man in the psyche of every woman.
The collective oppression of women since the collapse of the great pre-historic matriarchies at the close of pre-literate times reflects the collective state of the repression of the archetypal Anima in men.
Within this general archetypal pattern, specific animal forms often have specific reference to particular instincts.
The fear of death which plays such a large role in the repressions of modern society is deeply and inextricably intertwined with the collective repression of the archetypal Great Mother.
Several scholars have undertaken symbolic analysis of the evolution of this archetypal figure from its first appearance as the male consort of the Great Mother.
Christian mythos embodies ancient, archetypal themes found around the world from the earliest periods.
In this sense, the Mandala is an archetypal form generated by unconscious nature well prior to the evolution of human consciousness.
Even older than the lotus and the rose, and more profoundly woven into the very fabric of the universe, is the archetypal form of the Spiral.
All of these locations are at one level archetypal representations of the unconscious as a whole.