What is "archetypes"

Usage examples of "archetypes".

Calling on inherited archetypes and old mythological motifs is of little help in this new, emergent, and unprecedented endeavor.

One, through the mental Forms or archetypes and into the material and bodily realm of the senses, and finds itself there, so to speak, lost and confused.

Yogachara of Asanga and Vasubandhu, see the archetypes as habit-memories more than eternal Forms, though all agree that the archetypes are formative processes prior to but not other to any particular manifestation.

Nor are subtle archetypes located in the mythic structure: all dimensions are based on the transrational Forms lying next to the causal, not next to the magical.

When in ancient times people spoke of Chaos, they meant the womb of all being, the exalted realm of uncreated things, where indeed forms such as are evident to the eye in the created world are not to be found, but in place of them are the archetypes of all visible forms, as though nurtured in a spiritual seed-condition.

Thus, there are the Sophists, who doubt everything, and the followers of Plato, who believe that only archetypes are real, the mystical Pythagoreans and the Aristotelian logicians.

You could all but see him sorting through archetypes in borrowed memories: high technology, controlled emotions.

And proceeding in the direction of the archetypes we therefore eventually run into, not Spirit, but atoms.

In other words, the Jungian archetypes are not the transcendental archetypes or Forms found in Plato, or Hegel, or Shankara, or Asanga and Vasubandhu.

Creative and Effluxing and Descending God, archetypes that expressed themselves in the regular patterns of a harmonious nature.