Archetypal+Definitions

Archetypal images refer to a specific complexity, a nexus of experience, narratives, meaning, and behavior oriented around a principle shared by the vast majority of human beings. Archetypal images make their own orientation central to understanding itself, a lens through which to color, include, organize, and deploy associated ideas. These images are metaphors giving intangible meaning to literal things so that they make their own kind of sense, working at the theoretical level as the big ideas with which cultural mythologies are woven, like The Market plays a key part in Economics, at the behavioral level in the roles humans play, like Mother, Boss, or Lover, and extensively in between.