Archetypes Flashcards
Who created the concept of archetypes in psychology?
Carl Gustav Jung
What is the concept of archetypes based on?
The Collective unconscious
In storytelling, the concept of archetypes can be applied to what aspects of stories?
Situational, character, and symbolic
The concept of the heros journey was created by?
Joseph Campbell
What heroic archetype fights against physical challenges and evils for society?
The Warrior
Hero archetype with the primary motivation of unity
The Ruler
Heroic archetype that provides wisdom and guidance
The Sage
Heroic archetype who’s call is restlessness or a sense of a better life somewhere else
The Seeker
Star Wars shows this situational archetype
Battle of good vs. evil
Spider man shows this situational archetype
The initiation: usually process of becoming an adult
Jaws shows this situational archetype
The Quest: search for someone/thing that will restore a wasted land
Batman shows this situational archetype
The unhealable wound: physical/mental wound that describes the loss of innocence. Usually drives a character to desperation. (This is shown by Harvey Dent/ twoface )
The matrix shows this situational archetype
Nature v. Mechanistic world: nature is good and tech. society is evil.
Super man and Jesus Christ show this situational archetype
Death/rebirth
Rocky (movie) shows this situational archetype
The task: kind of like the quest but the protagonist must complete a nearly super human deed
Thor (movie) shows this situational archetype
The fall: descent from higher form to lower form.
Darkness represents
Despair, innocence, or the unknown
Desert represents
Sterility and desiccation
Fire represents
Knowledge, light, life, warmth and energy
Haven represents
Safety, recovery, rest
Heaven represents
The gods
Hell represents
Evil, diabolical forces
Ice represents
Ignorance, darkness, death
Light represents
Hope and intellectual illumination
Water represents
Life, spirituality, rebirth, abundance
Wilderness represents
Danger, and a threat to society
