{"id":443586,"date":"2021-09-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/?p=443586"},"modified":"2025-05-12T13:35:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:35:38","slug":"12-character-archetypes-writers-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/12-character-archetypes-writers-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"The 12 Character Archetypes: A Guide For Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are you looking for readers to connect to your story on a more primal level? Do you want them to feel close to your characters and to root for them? Well, this article explores how you can use character archetypes to do just that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may have heard people talk about \u2018archetypes and their importance to Jungian theory\u2019 and wondered just what they were talking about. But an understanding of the key character archetypes may be just the thing to help elevate your stories and keep your readers turning the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, believed that storytelling and myth making were an integral part of humanity\u2019s development. At the centre of our stories are characters who appear repeatedly, irrespective of culture, custom, or language. They are part of our instinctive understanding as humans, resonating on a fundamental level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Is An Archetype?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An archetype is the original pattern on which other things are based; it is the prototype, or blueprint, as it were. In essence it is something that is universally recognised as a typical example of something or someone. In Jungian theory, this definition is taken even further and used to describe the collective unconscious we inherited from our earliest human ancestors, something almost hardcoded into us.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n

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