It represents what is exemplary, what shows the ideal or what it should be, that is, a model, from which other ideas, concepts, objects or copies emerge. It can be something tangible or intangible (symbolic), but it always has the ability to generate other things from itself.
In this sense, an archetype can shape behaviors and even ways of thinking, since the environment seeks imitation or similarity to what is shown to be ideal.
From this principle, it is clear the meaning that has been given to the archetype in psychology, called Jungian archetype, by its creator Carl Gustav Jung, who assured that all living beings have a collective unconscious, which differs from the personal one, which It is inherited and is found in the brain structure, influencing the formation of the way of being of each individual. In other words, he stated that beings act and perceive things according to cultural and social heritage. Some types of archetypes exposed by Jung are: the anima and animus, the shadow, the hero, the mother, the father, the sage, the person and the trickster.
Besides psychology, there are many other sciences and disciplines that have used the term.
For philosophy, the archetype has a meaning similar to that developed in psychology and is defined as those thoughts that are shared collectively and turn out to be universal, so that individual action and thought arises from the archetypes, which allow classifying and order the world.
For biology, the term became very important during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in this science the archetype represents that primitive or original species from which organic diversity is derived, that is, that ideal species from which they are derived. all species of the same edge.
In cybernetics the term began to be used thanks to the introduction given by Peter Senge, who defined archetype as those generic or general structures of people's thinking, in those situations of organizational behavior.
