archetypal

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archetype /ˈɑːkɪtʌɪp/

▶noun

• 1 a very typical example.

• 2 an original model.

• 3 Psychoanalysis (in Jungian theory) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious.

• 4 a recurrent motif in literature or art.

– derivatives
archetypal adjective,
archetypally adverb,
archetypical adjective,
archetypically adverb.

– origin C16: via L. from Gk arkhetupon ‘something moulded first as a model’, from arkhe- ‘primitive’ + tupos ‘a model’.