Archetype
Archetype (from ancient Greek ἀρχή arché 'beginning' and τύπος typos ' 'impression') stands for:
- an ideal typical representative of an idea, archetype (philosophy)
- a psychological conception and action pattern, see archetype (psychology)
- a reconstruction of a lost historical text, see Urtext
- in systems theory the structure of behavioral patterns, see system archetype
- a literary figure associated with fixed features, see type (literature)
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Wiktionary: archetype - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
