3 Metaphors for archetypes

In the science of symbolism, the archetype is the thing adopted as a symbol, whence the symbolic idea is derived.

XIX) summed up what may be definitely believed of the Nights in the following conclusion: The framework of the book is purely Persian perfunctorily Arabised, the archetype being the Hazar Afsanah.

While the ideas of substances are referred to a reality without the mind as their archetype, to which they are to conform and which they should image and represent, Relations (e.g., husband, greater) are free and immanent products of the understanding.

3 Metaphors for  archetypes