archetypal


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Synonyms for archetypal

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Synonyms for archetypal

representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned

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Furthermore, one could ask whether the archetypal scholar is defined by his knowledge of only law, theology, and mysticism, or could there be more to what was considered "typical" in the education of the alim of the premodern period?
If a couple's archetypal journey gets out of sync, their relationship can suffer.
Jacobi (1999) defines archetypes as factors and motifs that arrange the psychic elements into certain images characterized as archetypal but in such a way that they can be recognized only from the effects they produce.
The first full-length literary criticism that uses Jungian concepts in the study of literature is Maud Bodkin's Archetypal Patterns in Poetry (1934) which demonstrated the author's interest in the way in which ancient symbolism is replicated in works across a long period of time.
The researchers noted that understanding a person's archetypal life themes may be useful in planning targeted communications, from artwork to public health messages and advertising.
If Mr Griffiths is still searching for a nation to define the archetypal "undemocratic state", might I suggest the United States of America?
Rather, archetypal woman first develops a kind of false equality, collapses again suddenly, and starts a new push toward growth and full stature which she eventually attains at the end of her effort.
Certain expectations to look a certain way and live up to specific social and cultural ideologies, particularly with respect to archetypal masculine bodies, have been imposed on males.
Watkins creates a figure, Paul, a senior sales manager negotiating to take on the role of vice president of sales, and builds the book around his archetypal experiences.
Moon teaches the friend to live in the wilderness, makes friends with the bully, and hides out in a junkyard courtesy of archetypal rednecks with hearts of gold.
The longing for the mother--real, symbolic, archetypal, chthonic--is the central thread in the poem, in which seven sections are titled according to rites or prayers that allude to specific moods: Shaharit (morning prayer), Yizkor (memorial prayer), Lethe, Pythia, Equinox, Threnody (song of lamentation), and September.
Sherbourne was the archetypal Warwickshire village - a serene haven in the lush Avon plain where the only sounds to disturb the peace were the murmuring of doves and the gentle tearing of grass by cows on the pasture - and maybe, the twitter of bats at dusk.
Holcombe falters only when she leans on heavy-handed sentiment, as in The Proprietor (all works 2005), a visual polemic about an archetypal scheming white male politician.
But the students aren't looking for the archetypal dorm room.