Archetyp — meaning in English
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English meaning
- archetype noun An original pattern or model that other similar things are based on or compared to.
Senses
Archetyp is used for these senses in English:
- archetype An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype. [from mid 16th c.]
- archetype (psychology) According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
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