39 Quotes About Archetypes

By learning to recognize when your own archetypes are taking over, it’s easier to observe when other people are living from their shadow selves.

When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion.

And that's the point! Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force strength power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their week ones.

People who avoid shadow scare me.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.

Первобытный человек должен укротить в себе животное и превратить его в помощника, тогда как цивилизованный человек должен оздоровить в себе животное начало и подружиться с ним.

Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archetypes that I was exposed to. Walt was able to expose me as a child to the full array of emotions, including fear and sorrow. Those movies and attractions haunted my dreams and made a deep impression on me as a child.

It sort of looks like a place with the background filled in by buildings. And a lot of people say that it has a Dr. Seuss look to them. To me, they are just whimsical looking with colorful human archetypes that you can sort of read into them.