English Dictionary

archetype

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɑːkɪtaɪp/

名詞

An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype. / An ideal example of something; a quintessence.

日本語の意味

原型、典型（すべての類似概念や対象、人物の基となるモデル） / 模範、理想的な例（あるものの本質や究極の姿を示すもの）

The hero's journey in that novel serves as an archetype for countless adventure stories.

あの小説における英雄の旅は数多くの冒険物語の原型となっている。

意味（1）

An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype.

According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה (he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah.

意味（2）

An ideal example of something; a quintessence.

The Bishop [of Gloucester, William Warburton] asserts there is no Archetype, because eloquence is a variable thing, depending on custom and fashion; […] there is no Archetype in nature of perfect eloquence; its very constituent parts, as they are deemed, having no substance or reality in them.

意味（3）

(literature) A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.

Archetypes are figures and creatures that inhabit the pools of the world's mythology, folk tales, epics, and ballads. […] Thus archetypes are universal essences that we all recognize: the Mother, the Lover, the Trickster, the Spiritual and Temporal Leader, the Devil.

意味（4）

(psychology) According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.

The three archetypes so far discussed—the shadow, the anima, and the wise old man—are of a kind that can be directly experienced in personified form. In the foregoing I tried to indicate the general psychological conditions in which such an experience arises. But what I conveyed were only abstract generalizations. One could, or rather should, really give a description of the process as it occurs in immediate experience. In the course of this process the archetypes appear as active personalities in dreams and fantasies.

意味（5）

(textual criticism) A protograph (“original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive”).

The outstanding importance of this manuscript for the text of Aeschylus has long been recognized. In the last century some scholars even persuaded themselves that it was the archetype of the whole extant tradition.

archetypes （ plural ）