A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
According to Swisspsychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.
Origin
From Old French architipe (modern French archétype), from Latin archetypum ("original"), from Ancient Greek ἀρχέτυπον ("model, pattern"), the neuter form of ἀρχέτυπος, from ἀρχή (from ἄρχω, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ- ("to begin; to command, rule")) + τῠ́πος (from τύπτω, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- ("to push; to stick")).
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