Archetype Quotes

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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches. — Alan Ball
Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced from,… — Charles Lyell
In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before it manifests in the physical.… — Corinne Heline
We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that — Laura Dern
You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one. — Kristin Lehman
Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart. — Waylon Jennings
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichÃ©s make us laugh but a hundred clichÃ©s moves us… — Umberto Eco
The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and… — Carl Jung
It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate… — Carl Jung
What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured. — Carl Jung
The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is… — Carl Jung
That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl… — Brian De Palma
The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character. — Kristan Higgins
The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empherical,… — Rupert Sheldrake
I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth… — John Boorman
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction â€” there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must… — Marco Tempest
Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype. — Norman Spinrad
It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the… — Carl Jung
There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the… — Carl Jung
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... It is a moment… — Carl Jung

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