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Carl Jung Archetypes

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Psychologist Carl Jung established that there is universality in character traits and personalities and that people fit within these universal classifications of character (Pearson & Marr, 2007). In fact, he termed these universal templates as archetypes, a term derived from the Greek word archetypos, which means the original patterns and models that represent the copies of all things. The variations in personalities and archetypes enable people to have different narratives to their lives, expectations, decisions and their interaction with their environment. In the scope of the current essay, I am going to highlight the peculiarities of the persona archetype. Before considering the ego archetype, in particular, it is important to light the

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