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archetypal, a.|ɑːˈkɛtɪpəl, ˈɑːkɪtaɪpəl|
[f. L. archetypum archetype + -al1.
(In Platonic philosophy, archetypal is applied to ideas or forms of natural objects, held to have been present in the divine mind prior to creation, and still to exist, as cognizable by intellect, independently of the reality or ectypal form.)]
1. Of the nature of, or constituting, an archetype; of or pertaining to an archetype; primitive, original.
1642H. More Song of Soul Notes 146/1 The Archetypal seal, which we call the intellectuall world, is the very word of God, the Archetypall Paradigme. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Wks. 1721 III. 383 Our great, our sole, Archetypal High Priest. 1848H. Rogers Essays I. vi. 287 Plato's ‘archetypal ideas’ correspond to our ‘general notions’ as expressed by ‘general terms,’ and something more; that is, he believed in their real existence..external to any and to all minds. 1869Farrar Fam. Speech ii. 41 Reconstruct extinct and archetypal forms of language.
2. spec. In the psychology of C. G. Jung: of, pertaining to, concerned with, or constituting an archetype (see archetype 2 c). Freely used in Literary Criticism, esp. of motifs which recur in mythologies, fairy tales, etc., e.g. the Great Mother, the Wise Man, the Enchanted Prince, and by extension of any pervasive symbolic representation.
1923H. G. Baynes tr. Jung's Psychol. Types 277 The latent primordial image of the goddess, which is in fact the archetypal soul-image. 1926W. McDougall Outl. Abnormal Psychol. 203 Jung would regard all the main features of this dream as instances of archetypal thinking thrown up from ‘the Collective Unconscious’. 1934M. Bodkin (title) Archetypal Patterns in Poetry. 1945Koestler Yogi & Commissar iii. i. 122 Jung showed that certain archaic or archetypal images and beliefs are the collective property of our race. 1948H. Read Art Now (ed. 4) v. 110 If we can accept the hypothesis of the collective unconscious as formulated by Jung, it is even possible that an artist like Picasso is able to reveal those archetypal images which are its characteristic content. 1950Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. June 236 Archetypal images and motives are particularly prevalent in decisive phases of life. 1957N. Frye Anat. of Crit. ii. 99 Archetypal criticism is primarily concerned with literature as a social fact. |