Archetypes

Archetypes are components of the collective unconscious, endowed with a number of characteristic features. For example, many people do heroic deeds in a dream. Everyone knows that a heroic act is the result of a person's perception of the ideas of goodness and sacrifice, a manifestation of a person in the image of an archetypal hero-savior. There are many archetypes in life. In the course of his research on human psychology and world mythologies, Carl Jung characterized many of them. In many ethnic cultures and religious communities, there are myths that embody the final version of various archetypal experiences. Examples of heroes can be Hercules or Sinbad. At transitional moments in our lives, we tend to identify with archetypes. Changes usually cause us anxiety and force us to rethink our own behavior. You graduate from college and start working, go from single life to married life, say goodbye to childlessness, and become a father—just a few examples of the transition from one archetype to another.