Archetypal
adjective
A very typical example of something or someone.
Her bright yellow raincoat is archetypal of her cheerful personality.
Often appears as...
- archetypal example
- archetypal character
adjective
Relating to an original model or pattern from which all other similar things are copied or based.
The heroic protagonist is an archetypal character in many epic narratives.
Often appears as...
- archetypal image
- archetypal symbol
adjective
A very typical example of something or someone.
Her bright yellow raincoat is archetypal of her cheerful personality.
Often appears as...
- archetypal example
- archetypal character
adjective
Relating to an original model or pattern from which all other similar things are copied or based.
The heroic protagonist is an archetypal character in many epic narratives.
Often appears as...
- archetypal image
- archetypal symbol
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Pro Tip 1/3Quintessential Representation
Use 'archetypal' to describe a perfect example that represents a typical quality or feature.
The archetypal tourist often has a camera around their neck.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Stereotypes
Archetypes can unintentionally reinforce stereotypes, so use the term carefully in cultural contexts.
The movie character was the archetypal absent-minded professor.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Overuse
Reserve 'archetypal' for clear examples that are widely recognized, to avoid diluting its impact.
The archetypal villain often wears a dark cape and laughs menacingly.
Pro Tip 1/3Quintessential Representation
Use 'archetypal' to describe a perfect example that represents a typical quality or feature.
The archetypal tourist often has a camera around their neck.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Stereotypes
Archetypes can unintentionally reinforce stereotypes, so use the term carefully in cultural contexts.
The movie character was the archetypal absent-minded professor.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Overuse
Reserve 'archetypal' for clear examples that are widely recognized, to avoid diluting its impact.
The archetypal villain often wears a dark cape and laughs menacingly.
Pro Tip 1/3Quintessential Representation
Use 'archetypal' to describe a perfect example that represents a typical quality or feature.
The archetypal tourist often has a camera around their neck.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Stereotypes
Archetypes can unintentionally reinforce stereotypes, so use the term carefully in cultural contexts.
The movie character was the archetypal absent-minded professor.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Overuse
Reserve 'archetypal' for clear examples that are widely recognized, to avoid diluting its impact.
The archetypal villain often wears a dark cape and laughs menacingly.
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Jonathan Harris: The...
and really started seeing the gaps that I talked about earlier -- the differences in age, gender and wealth and so on. But, you know, as I looked at this more and more and more, and saw these images go across the rocks, I realized I was seeing the same archetypal events depicted again and again and again.
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Travelers of the Year PIPE...
that was so captivating to them some of the boys said why don't we have any rights of passage that's right after hearing about samwell's circumcision at age 17 but you know it spoke to them and that he just connected with them on such a primal archetypal basis that you could
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Taryn Simon: The stories...
is one of the nation's most violent regions. It's rooted in a principle of retributive justice, or an eye for an eye, so retaliatory killings have led to several deaths in the area. This story, like many of the stories in my chapters, reads almost as an archetypal episode,
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Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
archetypal utopian landscape that it's as old as myth and it's ephemeral as a dream we seem to have this incredible yearning for places that don't exist of course looking into this incredible place and climbing into this landscape is a transcendent experience for me
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Music as a refuge PIPE...
hundreds of years it was a metaphorical archetypal journey of Exile a story of the African Diaspora my story in the quest to find a place of belonging a place that could be called home ironically it was this very narrative of living between worlds
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Naomi Klein: Addicted to...
neither men nor women, are fully exempt from this message. Here's what I'm talking about. Whether we actively believe them or consciously reject them, our culture remains in the grips of certain archetypal stories about our supremacy
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Claire Malone: The...
to answer the most fundamental questions about our universe. At school, I was the archetypal geeky kid just wanting to get the other lessons done to get into the science lab.
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Evan Grant: Making sound...
playing in real time through the cymascope. We can also use cymatics as a looking glass into nature. And we can actually recreate the archetypal forms of nature.
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Nellie McKay: "The Dog...
♫ Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh. ♫ ♫ My life was tragic and sad. ♫ ♫ I was the archetypal loser. ♫
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Nellie McKay: "Clonie"
♫ Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh. ♫ ♫ My life was tragic and sad. ♫ ♫ I was the archetypal loser. ♫
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Jonathan Harris: The...
and really started seeing the gaps that I talked about earlier -- the differences in age, gender and wealth and so on. But, you know, as I looked at this more and more and more, and saw these images go across the rocks, I realized I was seeing the same archetypal events depicted again and again and again.
Video examples
Travelers of the Year PIPE...
that was so captivating to them some of the boys said why don't we have any rights of passage that's right after hearing about samwell's circumcision at age 17 but you know it spoke to them and that he just connected with them on such a primal archetypal basis that you could
Video examples
Taryn Simon: The stories...
is one of the nation's most violent regions. It's rooted in a principle of retributive justice, or an eye for an eye, so retaliatory killings have led to several deaths in the area. This story, like many of the stories in my chapters, reads almost as an archetypal episode,
Video examples
Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
archetypal utopian landscape that it's as old as myth and it's ephemeral as a dream we seem to have this incredible yearning for places that don't exist of course looking into this incredible place and climbing into this landscape is a transcendent experience for me
Video examples
Music as a refuge PIPE...
hundreds of years it was a metaphorical archetypal journey of Exile a story of the African Diaspora my story in the quest to find a place of belonging a place that could be called home ironically it was this very narrative of living between worlds
Video examples
Naomi Klein: Addicted to...
neither men nor women, are fully exempt from this message. Here's what I'm talking about. Whether we actively believe them or consciously reject them, our culture remains in the grips of certain archetypal stories about our supremacy
Video examples
Claire Malone: The...
to answer the most fundamental questions about our universe. At school, I was the archetypal geeky kid just wanting to get the other lessons done to get into the science lab.
Video examples
Evan Grant: Making sound...
playing in real time through the cymascope. We can also use cymatics as a looking glass into nature. And we can actually recreate the archetypal forms of nature.
Video examples
Nellie McKay: "The Dog...
♫ Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh. ♫ ♫ My life was tragic and sad. ♫ ♫ I was the archetypal loser. ♫
Video examples
Nellie McKay: "Clonie"
♫ Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh. ♫ ♫ My life was tragic and sad. ♫ ♫ I was the archetypal loser. ♫
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Weyes Blood
American Musician
I have my own cosmology that's kind of like an esoteric mix of a lot of different things that work for me and that to me, are worth exploring. There is a little bit of the archetypal Christianity that I've kind of reconciled because when you're raised that way, inevitably that infrastructure will persist into your adulthood.
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Chuck Palahniuk
American Novelist
Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.
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Nicolas Malebranche
French Philosopher
We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.
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Dennis Gabor
Hungarian Scientist
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
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Frank Grillo
American Actor
A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.
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Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist
The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.
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Conor Oberst
American Musician
I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.
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Stanislav Grof
Czechoslovakian Psychologist
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
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Weyes Blood
American Musician
I have my own cosmology that's kind of like an esoteric mix of a lot of different things that work for me and that to me, are worth exploring. There is a little bit of the archetypal Christianity that I've kind of reconciled because when you're raised that way, inevitably that infrastructure will persist into your adulthood.
Quote examples
Chuck Palahniuk
American Novelist
Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
Quote examples
Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.
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Nicolas Malebranche
French Philosopher
We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.
Quote examples
Dennis Gabor
Hungarian Scientist
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
Quote examples
Frank Grillo
American Actor
A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.
Quote examples
Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist
The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.
Quote examples
Conor Oberst
American Musician
I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.
Quote examples
P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.
Quote examples
Stanislav Grof
Czechoslovakian Psychologist
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
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